Silva UltraMind On-Line Cource

Welcome to Lesson One - Silva UltraMind Online Course
Living Your Alpha Life

Introduction
What's Your True Potential?
Welcome to the first chapter of our nine-part multimedia e-book on

understanding and using the power of your mind to create a better, happier,
more fulfilling life.
Let's begin with a question.
Imagine how you would feel if you had it all...
 the business fulfillment,

 the loving relationships,
 vibrant health,
 creative expression,
 abundant friendships,
 a skyrocketing career.
Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Look at your life - do you have what you really, really want?
Or are you settling - have you given up on creating the ideal life you once
dreamed of?
Nobody has to live a life that is ordinary - yet most people do.
By doing so they miss out on their true potential.
The Silva UltraMind System is about discovering your purpose in life and using
your creative energies to fulfill this purpose. A life built around a greater purpose
is a life that is truly fulfilling and exciting.

A Road Map to Success
Different people have different definitions of success.
For you, success could be:
 starting a profitable business

 starting a loving family
 writing a book
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 owning a beautiful 3-bedroom home in the country
 running a marathon
 spending a year abroad with the Peace Corp
 earning your first one million dollars
 recovering from a life-threatening illness
No matter what your definition is, it's important to dream big and set a goal of
what you're seeking to accomplish.
Once you know what you want, the next step is manifest it into your life.
This is what this e-book is all about.
Let's begin the lessons now.

What You'll Learn
This e-book will take you through nine guided lessons involving the written word
and audio recordings.
You will learn to reach deep levels of mind using advanced audio exercises
developed by Jose Silva. While at these levels of mind we will teach you various
techniques you can use to empower yourself and move you toward your purpose
and goals.
Here's what you will learn over the next few days:
 How to reach deep levels of meditation with supreme ease.

 How to use affirmations to create immediate attitude shifts.
 How to accelerate healing and achieve vibrant health.
 How to develop your intuition.
 The art of creative visualization to manifest dreams.
 How to create a life plan.
 The art of goal setting and thinking big.
This program was developed with the purpose of reminding you of the latent
powers that lie within you; and inspiring you to begin to use them.
I use the word remind because if you found this program you are probably aware
of these abilities. But like most people, you have waited - procrastinated in
learning to use them.
You will receive nine lessons over the next few weeks. A new lesson will be sent
to you every few days. Each lesson will contain an explanation of a new
technique.
The techniques will get more advanced with each new lesson.
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By breaking this program into several fragments and spreading them out over a
few weeks we allow you to better retain and understand the material presented.
This program will show you how to tap into your latent mental abilities using not
just written text but also specialized audio recordings developed by Jose Silva.
These recordings are designed to guide you into a state of deep, focused,
meditation.
During this meditation you will be wide awake but your body will be asleep. Your
subconscious mind will be brought to the conscious level and you will be in
full control over your mental abilities and thoughts.
You can use this time to program your mind to accomplish anything you desire.
This is the Silva UltraMind System.
The Multi-Purpose Mind
Before we begin, let's take a glimpse at what the mind is really capable of
accomplishing.
A well known figure once said:
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the
physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by
faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power
that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All
weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence,
spiritual awakening, prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the
superstructure of happiness.
These words were said not by a guru on a mountaintop, nor a self-improvement

writer but by William James, the Harvard Psychologist known as the Father of
American Psychology.
To the untrained mind, William James' statement may seem far-fetched, but
modern discoveries are finding his words to be true.
Let's look at some examples of what happens when this "eternal reservoir of

power" is harnessed properly.
Case 1# - Using the Mind in Sports
Dr. Charles Garfield, former NASA researcher and current president of The
Performance-Science Institute in Berkeley CA talks about a startling experiment
conducted by Soviet sports scientists.
The study examined the effect of mental training, including visualization, on four
groups of world-class athletes just prior to the 1980 Lake Placid, New York
Olympics. The four groups of elite athletes were divided as follows:
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Group 1 – did 100% physical training to prepare for the Olympic Games.
Group 2 – did 75% physical training, 25% mental training.
What the researchers found was that group 4 – the group with the most
mental training – had shown significantly greater improvement than
group 3.
Likewise, group 3 showed more improvement than group 2, and group 2 showed
more improvement than group 1.
The results were astonishing. Who would expect that athletes training mentally
would be able to advance further than their counterparts who were training
physically.
Garfield said, “During mental rehearsal, athletes create mental images of the
exact movements they want to emulate in their sport. Use of this skill
substantially increases the effectiveness of goal-setting, which up until then had
been little more than a dull listing procedure.”
If mental exercises and visualization could have such a profound impact on
athletes, what kind of impact could it have on you?
Can you use the same principle to improve your attitudes, confidence and skills?
Could it impact your learning ability; your golf swing; your ability to shed weight
and stick to a diet?
The answer is yes.
We will explore these topics in a later chapter and show you visualization
techniques you can use to improve the quality of your life.

Case 2# - Miraculous Healing
The following story will challenge your idea of just how much your mind
influences your body.
In 1950, a new drug called Krebiozen had received sensational national publicity
as a “cure” for cancer and was being tested by the American Medical Association
(AMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of the researchers
involved in this testing was a doctor called Bruno Klopfer.
One of Dr. Klopfer's patients, a Mr. Wright was suffering from cancer of the lymph
nodes. All standard treatments had been exhausted, and Wright appeared to
have little time left. His neck, armpits, chest, abdomen, and groin were filled
with tumors the size of oranges, and his spleen and liver were so enlarged that
two quarts of milky fluid had to be drained out of his body each day.
When Wright discovered that Dr. Klopfer was involved in research on Krebiozen,
he begged to be given Krebiozen treatments. At first his doctor refused because
the drug was untested and only being tried on people with a life expectancy of at
least three months. Wright begged so hard, however, that Klopfer decided to
give him one injection on Friday, though he secretly suspected Wright would not
last the weekend.
Dr. Klopfer was in for a big surprise.
On the following Monday, Klopfer found Wright out of bed and walking around.
Klopfer reported that his tumors had "melted like snowballs on a hot stove" and
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were half their original size. This was a far more rapid decrease in size than even
the strongest X-ray treatments could have accomplished.
Ten days after Wright's first Krebiozen treatment, he left the hospital, and as far
as his doctors could tell, with no signs of cancer. When he had entered the
hospital, he had needed an oxygen mask to breathe, but when he left he was well
enough to fly his own plane at 12,000 feet with no discomfort.
Wright remained well for about two months, but then articles began to appear
asserting that Krebiozen actually had no effect on cancer of the lymph nodes.
Wright, who was rigidly logical and scientific in his thinking, became very
depressed, suffered a relapse, and was readmitted to the hospital. This time his
physician decided to try an experiment.
Dr. Klopfer told Wright that Krebiozen was every bit as effective as it had
seemed, but that some of the initial supplies of the drug had deteriorated during
shipping. He explained, however, that he had a new highly concentrated version
of the drug and could treat Wright with this. Of course, the physician did not
have a new version of the drug and intended to inject Wright with nothing more
than plain sterile water.
Again the results were dramatic. Tumor masses melted, chest fluid vanished,
and Wright was quickly back on his feet and feeling great. Yet he had been
injected with nothing more than sterile water.
Wright remained symptom-free for another two months, but then the American
Medical Association announced that a nationwide study of Krebiozen had found
the drug worthless in the treatment of cancer. This time Wright's faith was
completely shattered. His cancer blossomed anew and he died two days later.
Wright's story is tragic, but it contains a powerful message: When we are

fortunate enough to bypass our disbelief and tap the healing forces within us, we
can cause tumors to melt away overnight. The patient’s mind alone, independent
of the value of the medication, produced his recovery.
This event proves that your mind is so powerful that it can literally bring
wonderful or tragic events to bear within days. Most people do not learn how to
tap into and control this powerful force.
Many people do have their minds working for them, but in negative ways. Doctors
call this psychosomatic illness - an illness caused by a person's negative belief
system.
In this course we will teach you how to create positive belief systems and how
you can use visualization to accelerate your body's rate of healing and recovery.
Case 3# - Creating Positive Coincidences
It is an undisputed fact that the mind can influence the physical body but can the
mind influence the world beyond your body? In other words, can the mind
create coincidences and influence reality?
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People all around the world have experienced this in their own lives and will say
that the answer is yes - your world can be shaped by your thoughts and beliefs.
The following story describes one such incident - how one man discovered the
power of his mind in creating coincidences. He went on to use this ability to
become so successful that his work is almost a household name in America.
For the purpose of this story, let's call this man Scott. His real name will not be
revealed until the end to make this story more intriguing. This story was told in a
book Scott wrote in 1998.
In the early 1980s, Scott had heard of a process called affirmations from a friend.
The process he learnt was simple. Visualize what you want and write it down
fifteen times in a row, once a day, until you obtain it.
Scott was told that the process did not require any faith or positive thinking for it
to work. Even more interesting was the suggestion that the technique would
influence the environment directly and not just make you more focused on your
goals. In other words, it would spawn amazing coincidences to move you
towards your goals. The coincidences could be things that were seemingly
unconnected to you and beyond your control.
Scott was very left-brained and logical in his thinking. He had his doubts about
the process but figured that there was no harm in trying.
"Within a few weeks, coincidences started to happen to me." wrote Scott.

"Amazing coincidences, strings of them. I won't mention the specific goal I was
working on, as it was a private matter, but within a few months the goal was
accomplished exactly as I had written it."
But Scott was not yet convinced that affirmations helped. Coincidences do happen
on their own and Scott considered the test inconclusive.
So Scott picked another goal - to make some gains in the stockmarket. He wrote
his affirmation down every day and waited for some inspiration. It came to him in
a dream. He woke up one night with the words "Buy Chrysler" repeating in his
head.
He bought shares in the inspired company during one of its most bleak periods
yet it began to rise soon after and he made some good returns on it. He repeated
the experiment again and managed to pick another successful company, with
stock-symbol "Ask".
Armed with this confidence in the power of affirmations Scott decided to apply it
to a more challenging goal - getting into the highly competitive Berkeley MBA
program.
The problem was that he had already taken the entrance exam, the G.M.A.T, and
only hit the seventy-seventh percentile score. He knew he needed to be above
the ninetieth percentile to at least have a chance of being accepted.
Scott picked the outlandish target of ninety-four as his goal and again applied the
affirmation technique. Despite not being able to go much higher than the
seventy-seventh percentile in the practice exams Scott was surprised to learn
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that he did indeed hit the ninety-fourth percentile for the G.M.A.T - just as he had
written in his affirmations. He graduated with his Berkeley MBA in 1986.
A few years later he tried pursuing a more serious goal, that of being a
syndicated cartoonist. He knew the odds of his cartoon submission being
accepted by a major newspaper were roughly 1 in 10,000.
He beat those odds and his cartoon was accepted. He was soon earning a decent
living with his cartoon strip but he wanted to achieve something bigger.
He decided he wanted the most successful comic strip on the planet. Scott felt
that the best measure of "most successful" would be number of books sold.
In June 1996 his book The Dilbert Principle hit the number-one spot on the
hardcover nonfiction list of the New York Times. It stayed in the top three all
summer. In November his second book, Dogbert's TopSecret Management
Handbook also made the bestseller list, giving Scott the number-one and
number-two positions simultaneously for one week. For that brief period of time,
Scott indeed had the "most successful" comic strip on the planet.
As you may have guessed, the person I'm talking about is Scott Adams, the
creator of the highly successful Dilbert comic strip. Scott writes about these
experiences with affirmations in his book The Dilbert Future. He does not profess
to know why it works but leaves the conclusion to the reader. You can buy Scott
Adams' hilarious Dilbert books at any bookstore.
"Reporters often ask me if I am surprised at the success of the Dilbert comic

strip. I definitely would be so, if not for my bizarre experience with affirmations.
As it was, I expected it." he writes in his book The Dilbert Future.
Scott Adams' experience with affirmations makes one wonder - is luck within
our control?
We will explore the process of affirmations in chapter 4 of this e-book and we will
look at some basic techniques you can use to manifest your goals.
Your Next Lesson - The Silva Centering Exercise
In our next lesson we will take a look how you can apply your mind to achieve
your goals, to accelerate healing and to make dramatic attitude shifts.
The technique we will be teaching you will be part of what many say is the most
advanced set of mind training techniques developed. Jose Silva developed these
techniques over a period of 40 years with some several millions dollars worth of
funding and tens of thousands of participants.
The next email in our series will be sent to you tomorrow.
The subject will be the The Silva Centering Exercise.
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Please look out for it.
This next email will show you how to establish the correct level of mind to start
accomplishing some of the things we discussed in this chapter. We will help you
attain this correct level of mind using a powerful guided meditation exercise
developed by Jose Silva. You will listen to this exercise through your computer
speakers.
Get ready for an exciting experience.

Watch out for our next email tomorrow.
PS - If You Can't Wait till Tomorrow...
Just Visit this Link to Download and Play

the Silva Centering Exercise Today
Sources for this lesson:
1. Charles A. Garfield, "PeakPerformance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest

Athletes," (New York: Warner Books, 1984), p.16.
2. Bruno Klopfer, "Psychological Variables in Human Cancer," Journal of Prospective Techniques

31 (1957), pp. 331-40.
3. Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Future," (New York: HarperBusiness, 1998), p.245-251.
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Lesson 2
The Silva Centering Exercise
A guided meditation technique to help you achieve deep levels of

relaxation.
In our last lesson, sent to you yesterday, we took a look at some truly fascinating
stories about the power of the human mind.
Today, it's time for you to take the first steps towards discovering and using your
mind in more remarkable ways.
The technique we will be teaching you in this lesson is called the Silva Centering
Exercise.
The Centering Exercise
It took Jose Silva 22 years of research and $500,000 in 1960s monetary value
($2 million in today's value) to develop his famous mind conditioning systems. It
all begins with the Silva Centering Exercise. This exercise will guide you to your
center brain frequency, the alpha level - the level for deep relaxation.
While at your center you will experience the many beneficial effects of deep
meditation.
By centering yourself you will be able to reduce stress, positively influence your
health and mentally program yourself to change your attitudes, kick bad habits
and practice creative visualization for goal setting or better health.
You can experience this powerful relaxation technique right this instant
through your computer.
Let's Get Started
To prepare, first read the introduction and instructions. Then sit in a relaxed
position and play the audio on your computer. The exercise will take 25 minutes.
To Start the Centering Exercise

Visit this Link
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Lesson 3
Enhancing Creativity
How to open your mind to a flood of creative ideas and inspiration
In our last chapter, The Silva Centering Exercise, you learned to enter deep levels
of relaxation and meditation.
By simply meditating daily you gain immense life-long health benefits. This is
commonly called passive meditation.
But there is another type of meditation that we teach at the Silva UltraMind
Seminar. We call this active meditation.
Rather than going to your alpha level and simply remaining there in a state of
relaxed meditation, we teach you to use this level of mind to accomplish anything
you desire.
Now the real fun begins.
You can use this level of mind to
 gain inspirational ideas and thoughts,

 program your brain to kick bad habits,
 accelerate your natural healing process,
 develop your intuition.
You can even use this level of mind to create coincidences to move you
towards your goals.
Today, we're going to focus on teaching you how to use this level of mind to gain
creative ideas or inspiration.
Perhaps you're looking to write a term paper, create a marketing plan for you
business or compose a song - you'll learn how to tap into your inner source of
creativity to guide you.
Gaining Inspiration From Within
Jose Silva used to demonstrate an experiment on creativity with kids in his

hometown of Laredo, Texas. He would ask kids to think of solutions to a
particular problem while they were at the beta, or waking, level of mind.
He would then guide them to the alpha, or meditative level of mind and ask them
to think of further solutions. The children were always able to come up with more
ideas while at alpha.
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Does your mind function more creatively when you're at the alpha level of mind?
There is surprising evidence for this, both from first hand experiences and
laboratory evidence.
Napoleon Hill, the best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of
Success believed that the human mind was capable of tapping into universal
fields of intelligence to access ideas and inspiration.
Napoleon Hill writes:
The great artists, writers, musicians and poets became great

because they acquire the habit of relying upon the "still small voice"
which speaks from within, through the faculty of creative imagination.
It is a fact well known to people who have keen imagination that their
best ideas come through so-called "hunches."
Hill talks about how one inventor from Maryland, the late Dr. Elmer R. Gates used
this technique to come up with over 200 patents. Gates would sit in his sound-
proof laboratory equipped with a pad of writing paper. He would shut off the
lights and ponder on the known factors of the invention on which he was working.
He would remain in this position until ideas began to "flash" into his mind in
connection with the unknown factors of the invention.
On one occasion ideas came so fast to Gates that he was forced to write for
almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing and he examined his
work he found that they contained a minute description of principles which had
not a parallel among the known data of the scientific world. Moreover the answer
to his problem was intelligently presented in those notes.
The greatest inventor of our time, Thomas Alva Edison, used a similar
technique. Edison was known for taking frequent naps in the middle of the day.
It is likely that during these naps he was entering the alpha level. He would often
come out of these naps with the solution to problems that had been bugging him.
Edison was awarded 1368 distinct patents and invented, among other things, the
incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the film projector, and the first motion
picture.
Edison was known to have said "Ideas come from space. This may seem
impossible and hard to believe but it's true. Ideas come from out of space."
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Where do creative ideas come from? The brain? The mind?
For best-selling author Richard Bach, a Silva graduate, the idea came from a bird.
"It was the weirdest experience of my life," Bach said in an interview quoted
in the November 1972 issue of Harper's Bazaar. "I was walking along one night,
worrying about the rent, when I heard this voice say, "Jonathan Livingston
Seagull". But no one was there. I had absolutely no idea what it meant. When I
got home, I suddenly had a vision of a seagull flying along, and I began to write.
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The story certainly didn't spring from any conscious invention on my part. I just
put down what I saw."
Silva Instructor Wingate Paine told us the rest of the story during an instructor
training session in Laredo not long after the book became a bestseller.
Wingate said that Bach had written the first two-thirds of the book from a
"dream-like" experience where a big seagull appeared to him and said, "Take
dictation, I have a story for you." But the bird faded away before the completion
of the story. Wingate said that Bach told him he did not know how to get the bird
to come back so that he could finish the book, until he took the Silva course.
Then he knew how to get to that "dream-like" level and how to invite Jonathan
Livingston Seagull to this creative level to tell him the rest of the story.
Bach said in a Harper's Bazaar article that even before taking the Silva training,
he'd come to assume that "there are certain 'hidden' capacities and powers which
can be taught. I think there is a terrifically pleasant principle behind existence -
do what you love to do and you'll be guided. It's a lot like flying a plane: You
have to trust what you can't see."
Jonathan Livingston Seagull was an immediate hit. The book was a bestseller,
and the movie based on the book was a huge hit. In fact, Jonathan Livingston
Seagull and the books that Bach wrote afterwards helped to bring about a
spiritual awakening on the planet, by helping people to understand and accept
their own spirituality.
Intuition in the Business World
Does this concept have applications in the world of business?
Professor John Mihalasky, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering

at the New Jersey Institute of Technology seems to think so. In experiments he
performed with company CEOs he observed that the CEOs who performed best in
tests of intuition also tended to be the ones with the best success rates at
running their business (measured in terms of 5 year profitability growth).
Prof. Mihalasky's experiment results are summarized in the table below.

Percent Profitability
Increase of the CEO's CEO Intuition Test Score
company over the last 5
Above Chance Chance Below Chance
years
Greater than 100% 81.5% 25% 27.3%
50% to 99% 18.5% 50% 18.2%
Below 50% 0% 25% 54.5%
Note that the CEOs with the greatest profitability increases (100% or more) also
had the greatest number of correct "guesses" in intuition tests. 81.5% of them
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performed above chance results. On the opposite end, of the CEOs with the
poorest results, none scored above chance in the intuition test. Of CEO's with
mediocre numbers the results were consistent with statistical chance results.
What does this mean? Perhaps Napoleon Hill was correct when he suggested in
his book The Laws of Success that the most successful people of his time, had
learnt to tap into their sixth sense.
"A genius", Hill said, "is a man who has discovered how to increase the intensity
of thought to a point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge
not available through the ordinary rate of thought".
This concept of tapping into a universal source of ideas also has applications in
the world of science and technology.
A research director at NDM (New Foundations in Medicine) took a Silva course

while working on a project to develop artificial arteries. He had come up with 4
different formulas while at beta, but none of them worked.
Silva instructor Ken Obermeyer explained what happened next. The NDM
researcher used a technique he learnt in class and programmed himself to have a
dream that would contain information that he could use to solve the problem he
had in mind - the best formula for artificial arteries.
"He awakened sometime during the night," Obermeyer said, "and wrote out a
formula," then he went back to sleep.
"When he awakened in the morning, he saw the formula, went into the
laboratory, put a sample together, and found that the human body would accept
his plastic."
"One interesting note about this creative solution," Obermeyer continued, "the
chemist said that if he had considered this formula on his beta information, he
wouldn't have believed it to be a formula the body would accept. He would not
have come up with this solution through reason and logic."
Here's how you can use this technique.
The Basic Technique
Go to your alpha level using the meditation techniques you learned in part 2 of
this e-book.
When you have reached your alpha level, think of the problem you wish to solve.
When you quiet your personality during meditation you open the channel for
higher wisdom and guidance to come to you through your intuitive mind.
Analyze the problem from all aspects and bring to mind all points of information
or data you have on the problem. Frame the specific questions in your mind.
Now let your mind wonder. Jot down any interesting ideas or thoughts that come
to you. The answer may come to you through words, mental pictures or feelings.
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This is the end of lesson three. In our next lesson you will learn the art of creative
visualization to help you move toward your goals. This next lesson will be sent to
you in two days.
At this point we would like to invite you to join the New Silva UltraMind Email
Discussion Group on Yahoo.com. You can learn from fellow practitioners and
share your ideas too.
Just visit this link to join.
If you'd like more info on Silva UltraMind seminars or on our Home Study
Program please visit our main website:
http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com
Thank You and we hope you enjoyed this lesson and continue to share these
emails with your friends and family.

Sources:
1. Napoleon Hill, "Think and Grow Rich," (New York: Fawcett Books, 1960), pp. 158-160.
2. Douglas Dean, John Mihalasky, "Executive ESP," (Prentice Hall, 1974)
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Lesson 4
Creative Visualization
Is "Luck" Within Your Control?

We now come to the premier techniques for harnessing your mind's power to
shape your life and move you towards your dreams and aspirations.
We will teach you two techniques in this lesson. These techniques are called
affirmations and creative visualization.
In our last lesson you learned how to use the alpha level of mind to gain creative
ideas and inspiration.
You are now ready for the next step. You will now learn how to tap into your mind
to shape your reality.
Perhaps you're looking to be more positive, to stick to your diet, to improve your
golf swing or to end a bad habit. We'll show you how you can use affirmations
and creative visualization to reprogram your mind and reshape your attitudes and
behavior.
It all starts with your imagination.
Imagination is the ability to create an idea, a vision or an image of something

new. In creative visualization, we use the power of imagination to form a mental
image of what we want to accomplish or obtain.
Your goal could be on any level - physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. You
might imagine yourself driving that BMW you always wanted, owning a home in
the country, married to your ideal mate, succeeding at your job or having
$100,000.00 in your bank account.
No matter what your goal, the technique is basically the same. You imagine the
desired outcome in your mind. At the same time, you repeat a positive
affirmation about the goal. The affirmation is in the present tense.
Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will.
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

The Scientific Evidence
There is strong scientific evidence that visualization can be used to dramatically
improve your performance in sports, public speaking, performing arts and
anything else which involves practice.
In one study, Australian psychologist Allen Richardson conducted an experiment
with basketball players making free throws. He divided the players in three
groups.
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Group A was asked to practice their free throws on a basketball court for 20
minutes a day.
Group B was asked not to practice at all.
Group C was asked to mentally rehearse shooting a basketball through a hoop for
20 minutes each day.
At the end of the study Group A improved their free throw ability by 25%. Group
B, as expected, showed no improvement at all.
What was truly surprising, was that Group C improved by 24%, almost as
much as Group A, even though they had never physically set foot in a basketball
court.
There is also overwhelming scientific evidence that visualization can be used to
heal the body. Doctors such as O. Carl Simonton have been helping patients
recover from serious illnesses such as cancer by combining visualization with
modern medicine. The patients often made dramatic improvements simply by
visualizing their bodies behaving in ideal, healthy ways.
We will look at more of this fascinating evidence in our next lesson which will be
on mind-body healing.
What we're going to suggest in this lesson is something even more incredible.
Your mind's influence is not just limited to improving your emotions, skills and
physical body.
Your mind can influence the world outside your apparent physical control.
In other words, your mind can spawn amazing coincidences to move you
towards your goals. The coincidences could be things that were seemingly
unconnected to you and beyond your control.
The techniques we will teach you do not just make you more focused on your
goals. They directly influence your reality.
Laboratory evidence pouring out of universities such as Princeton and Stanford
has shown that volunteers are able to influence matter by their thoughts. So far
the evidence has been limited to effects on random number generators, dice and
electronic equipment. We will look at some of this evidence in Lesson Seven.
What is still lacking is scientific evidence that visualization can create
"coincidences" in the physical world, outside your immediate control. This of
course, is hard to test in a lab.
But thousands of scientists and millions of other people in the world do believe in
this because they have experienced it in their own lives.
In short, just because an effect cannot be tested in a lab, does not mean it does
not exist.
Some of the greatest thinkers in the world - Einstein, Edison, Jung, Carnegie and
Goethe (the man with the highest recorded IQ, 210) - all believed in the power of
the mind to create coincidences.

I believe that the mind has the power to affect groups of atoms and
even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior, and that even the
course of the world is not
predetermined by physical law, but may be altered by
the uncaused volition of human beings.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington,
English mathematician and astrophysicist
Let's take a look at some of these personal experiences. Millions of people

worldwide have reported such coincidences.
On our web site we maintain a library of letters from people who have used Silva
UltraMind techniques to cure serious medical conditions, win in a casino, start a
business, find a dream job, success at goals, walk again after a car accident, earn
a six-figure income, and cure numerous health conditions.
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Letters are sorted in categories: Health, Personal Development, Career and
Spiritual Development. You can access this library anytime by clicking here.
Below, we have included segments from letters that we have received from
students of the Silva UltraMind System. These letters will give you some ideas of
what can be accomplished when the mind is properly harnessed.

Letters from Students
The following are extracts from letters we have received from students in the past
12 months. These letters and more, are catalogued on our website:
http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/testimonials/
Investment Success
"[The] technique already solved one problem with my investments.
Two days after doing it, the broker called to inform me [that] my value
was up 40% and he wanted to get together with me over dinner to
discuss better and safer ways of protecting and increasing my assets.
This is exactly what I programmed for."
~ Jim, Illinois

Mental Rehearsal for Sports & Public Speaking

"I have received many great complements on my oral presentations
which can be attributed to my ability to visualize the presentation
before it happens. I have also used this technique in golf and kung-fu.
Ever since then, it has helped me to become better at my game and
master my techniques."
~ CS, Warwick, Rhode Island
Losing Weight
"I did [the technique] in which I saw myself making better choices
about what I eat, and ended with the result of being my ideal weight.
Recently, I noticed that without struggle, I have made dramatic
changes in the way I eat - much less fat and sugar and smaller
helpings, yet I seem to be more satisfied and enjoying the taste of the
food I eat more than ever."
~ G.H, New York

Improving Sales Performance

"I'm a sales manager by profession, and I have to say the visualization
is such a tremendous part of being successful in my field. Virtually
every time I use it, I come close or hit the target on what I wanted to
achieve."
~ Jeff, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Looking Better & Attracting People

"I began to see improvement physically. My joint pain disappeared and
my energy level was up. I also began to attract people - especially
men, in a way that I never before experienced. I also had people say
to me I looked 10 years younger and wanted to know what I did. I lost
weight."
~ Mary, California

Now let's take a look at how you can start applying these techniques.
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Basic Technique 1 - Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements you repeat to yourself while in a meditative
or alpha level of mind. Affirmations are always done in the present tense, as if
the action has already taken place.
The concept was made famous by a French physician called Emile Coue. Coue
was responsible for thousands of remarkable documented healings at the
beginning of the 20th century. His remedy was to combine western medicine with
the power of affirmations. Patients were made to repeat positive healing
affirmations to themselves while in a relaxed frame of mind. Coue's most famous
affirmation was "every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."
When done at the alpha level, affirmations tend to be countless times more
powerful than when done at the beta, or waking state.
Why? Because when you reach the alpha level of mind, your subconscious is
brought to a conscious level - this means it's easier for you to convey commands
directly to your subconscious.
Several affirmations that we use in the Silva UltraMind seminar include:
Negative thoughts, negative suggestions, have no influence over me at any level
of the mind.
I will always maintain a perfectly healthy body and mind.
Positive thoughts, positive emotions, bring me all the benefits and advantages I
desire.
I am learning to use more of my mind and to use it in a better way.
You can also create your own affirmations:
Looking for job satisfaction? Try saying:
I have a perfect career that I truly love and enjoy. I have great opportunities for
advancement and I am earning a wonderful salary of __________ a year.
Looking to lose weight? Try:
I only enjoy eating the right types of healthy, nutritious foods that are good for
my body.
or
I love the feeling of increased energy I get after exercising.
or
Every day, I am burning calories and getting closer to my ideal weight.
Other affirmations you can use include:

My relationship with _______ is growing.
I enjoy my work and am richly rewarded.
I have enough time, energy, wisdom and money to accomplish all my goals.
Before you start creating your affirmation, note these important rules:
1. Affirmations must be in the present tense.

Your subconscious mind does not think in terms of past, present or future. If you
say, I want to be an excellent golfer then your subconscious understands this as
a statement of wanting. What you then get is the wanting or desire to be an
excellent golfer but not the actual ability itself.
What you should say is "I am an excellent golfer". Your subconscious understands
this as a statement of your present reality. It therefore works to make this reality
true.
Remember - replace I want... with I am...
2. You must believe that the goal is within your reach.

If you repeat an affirmation, but at the same time you're secretly thinking you
cannot accomplish it, you hijack the process.
When you first start practicing this you should start with small believable goals.
As you achieve these goals your confidence in yourself and in the power
affirmations grows. This allows you to tackle bigger and bigger things.
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The best way to implant an affirmation is to free your mind of all desire and
intention. Merely state the suggestion to yourself without passion as a thing that
is already so. Something that is true is obvious and undeniable -- it does not
need to be shouted or defended. It simply is. Use repetition to reinforce the
effects of the affirmation.
3. Affirmations must always be done as a positive statement.

If you're trying to lose weight don't say, "I am not overweight". Instead say, "I
am slim and healthy". When you see a phrase such as "I am no longer ill", the
dominant image in your mind is that of illness. When you turn that around to a
phrase such as "I am healthy and well", the dominant image in your mind is now
one of health and wellness.
Remember - always turn the affirmation into a positive statement.
Positive affirmations are extremely useful in causing fundamental change, not
only in behavior and beliefs, but in the external conditions of life.
When a suggestion is correctly injected into the subconscious mind, the effect is
nothing short of miraculous. It does not show itself overnight, however, but is
gradual and cumulative.

Basic Technique 2 - Creative Visualization
A technique even more powerful than affirmations is creative visualization.
This involves visualizing the end result of your goal or desire while you are in the
alpha level of mind.
The concept of creative visualization has been known for ages. It gained renewed
popularity in the 1970s when a Silva graduate by the name of Shakti Gawain
wrote a best-selling book about it.
Just like affirmations your visualization should be done in the "present tense".
Lets say you're looking to own a brand new car. You want to visualize yourself in
the car and feel the moment as if it is happening right now and not at some time
in the future.
In other words, feel the sense of joy of owning the car, rather than the sense of
wanting or the sense of desire for the car.
To visualize effectively Jose Silva suggests creating a mental screen in front of
your eyes. This should be like the screen you see in a cinema. It should be
forward, in front of your eyes, and raised at an angle of around 20 degrees. The
screen should be at least 6 feet in front of you. Make the screen as large as you
can, almost like a movie screen in a cinema.
Try it now. Close your eyes and visualize the mental screen, raised slightly 20
degrees above the horizon, and at least 6 feet in front of you.
When you perform creative visualization you will project images onto this screen.
If you are looking to improve your sports performance, visualize yourself playing
the game perfectly. See yourself making perfect moves, shooting every basket,
making the perfect swing. Feel the joy you feel when you win the game.
If you are looking to lose weight, see yourself healthy and fit. Feel the joy of
having a beautiful body. See people complimenting you.
If you're in sales, you can see yourself making the perfect pitches. See your
monthly commission check showing ever increasing figures.

Enhancing Your Creative Visualization
If you have difficulty visualizing use a technique called streaming. In streaming
you mentally describe what it is that you're seeing. Make the description as
detailed as possible. For example if you're trying to visualize yourself driving a
brand new car, mentally tell yourself, "I'm now seeing the dashboard, it has
beautifully carved silver dials, the leather has tiny checkered patterns on it...."
As you describe the image in detail you will find that the image also takes on
more detail. This, in turn, gives you more things to mentally describe. One feeds
into the other and your imagined image becomes more and more vivid.
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Don't get stuck on the term "visualization". Different people have different
dominant senses. The most common dominant sense is the sense of sight. This is
why for most people the process of visualization works well. Some people,
however, may have a dominant sense of touch or hearing or smell. These people
may have difficulty "visualizing" but may be able to accurately imagine sounds,
smells or feelings. For these people it's important to incorporate these senses into
their "mental experience". Someone who was born blind for example, can still
engage in creative visualization, but rather then see images, they would create
the mental experience by using their mental sense of smell, hearing, taste and
touch.
How to increase the impact of creative visualization:
1. Make the image as realistic as possible. Incorporate movement, make the
screen three-dimensional. See colors and shapes. Use the streaming technique if
you have difficulty visualizing.
2. Feel emotions associated with the image - joy, happiness, a sense of
fulfillment. How would you be feeling if you had what you wanted? Imagine and
explore this feeling. A thought without emotions has no energy and no force
behind it. It is like running a car on empty. Feel the emotions of having what you
want.
3. Bring in your other senses. Feel the wind blowing on your face; imagine the
scents involved with the images. Feel texture and temperature. The more senses
you involve, the more real the image is to your subconscious mind.
Here is one example. Picture an orange. Imagine the color of it. Is it bright
orange and ripe? Then picture yourself peeling the orange. Imagine the smell as
you start to peel it. Feel the juice flowing over your fingers. Then squeeze the
orange and feel the flesh of the fruit. Bring it to your nose and imagine the odor
of an orange. Now imagine tasting it and bring back a memory of how an orange
tastes in your mouth. As you can see, the trick is to make the image as real as
possible by using all of your senses and emotions.
Remember, the more realistic the visualization process, the better and
faster the results.

How You Can Practice
You can combine your affirmations with your creative visualization to create a
more powerful effect. As you're imagining your goal, simply repeat your
affirmation mentally, as many times as you feel necessary.
Don't be discouraged if you do not get immediate results. We are all at different
levels of spiritual development and some of us have years of negative
programming and negative belief systems to overcome. But overcome them you
shall. Creative visualization can be such a powerful process when done at the
Alpha level that just five minutes a day of practice can undo years of negative
programming.
Furthermore, once you get your first success your belief system gets
strengthened and this will allow you to manifest your next goal a little quicker.
Masters who practice regularly find that they do not even have to go to a
meditative level of mind and spend time repeatedly visualizing their goals. A
mere conscious thought of their desire can set the gears in motion and create
coincidences to direct them towards their goal.
Before we end this lesson we will share some other letters received from students
who have taken the Silva UltraMind seminar or used the home study program.
Keep in mind that these students attended the seminar or used the home study
course, both of which contain advanced techniques beyond the scope of this
program.
One can still get excellent results from just the basic techniques outlined in this
program but you will have to practice much harder and start with smaller goals
while you build up your belief system.

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More Personal Experiences

Powerful Healing
"I was soon able to walk again, and within 6 months, was able to return to
practicing medicine. I have advanced even further and made a move and
am happier than I have been in years. Also, no headaches or any other
pain. My medical knowledge returned totally intact."
~ A Medical Doctor in Mississippi who was in a coma after a car accident.
Creative Visualization in Business Negotiation

"I was put in charge of buying a large amount advertising space for my
company. The company selling the space offered us the spot for
$500,000.00. This was way above our budget. My CEO who is an excellent
negotiator had been trying to get them down to $100,000 for months but
had no success. Finally he dumped the project on me. I had no experience
with this sort of negotiation but I used the Silva technique while in my
meditative level to communicate with the advertisement seller and to
request a better deal. The seller had been ignoring me for 2 weeks but that
very next day I got a call saying they had agreed to come down to
$100,000. I was amazed - we had been trying for months to no avail. By
then my confidence was at a peak so I refused the offer and went to my
meditative level again and asked for an even better deal. I mentally
visualized myself in the negotiation and getting the deal I wanted. Again
the results came hard and fast. The very next day I managed to get them
down to $60,000. We signed the contract! My CEO was amazed that I
managed to do this. Well I got a huge bonus. This was 2 months after
taking the UltraMind seminar. Lets just say the seminar paid for itself 20
times over in a mere 2 months."
~ John, Business Development Manager at a Silicon Valley Company.
Overcoming Hurdles
"I am most excited about the results I got from using the technique on a
screenplay I had been contracted to write. The project had been stalled for
a year over legal issues because the producer was not able to get the
necessary permissions to go ahead. Within a few weeks, I was able to get
the necessary permissions to go ahead with the project. I will certainly
continue to use these techniques as the project moves through the many
phases involved."
~ Jackie, New York
Solving Conflicts
"I work [for a] Financial Management company that provides financial
solutions for major international banking institutions. We had [a] client in
Europe [and] the project involving my team was well under way. The
project was not going easy and we had some tensions, but when the
client's management team changed we had to deal with an absolutely
arrogant and unreasonable person. Yesterday our final round of
negotiations failed and this person stormed out of the meeting room
cursing. I went into my Alpha level in the evening and pictured this person
forgiving and shaking hands with our rep (Our rep had requested
resignation yesterday). I pictured them both calm and collaborating and
both companies benefiting from the project completion. Guess what? Today
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our rep is in a good mood and back to work. That arrogant manager did
apologized and the project keeps running. I am amazed."
~ Arthur D, New York
Casino Winnings
"Walked in a casino, went to the roulette table, and used the technique.
After 47 minutes of playing, I walked away with $1600.00 profit. I needed
1300.00 for some car repairs. I went to the casino with just 100 dollars,
went home with $1600. Used the $1300 for car repairs and gave the other
$300 to the Salvation Army."
~ Jim, Illinois
Securing a six-figure job

"I have secured a job paying close to six figures, and have a shot at
another which would pay significantly more. Add to that, the little family
business that we began 8 months ago has all the promise of skyrocketing."
~ John, Colorado
Fast Healing
"Wow. I can't believe that I had a skin graft two weeks ago. My foot was
still swollen. I went to level to get rid of the swelling. This morning I woke
up and my ankle was normal size. It will probably swell again, but I'm
going back to level and get rid of it again. This stuff works. I love it."
~ Lorie
You can see the complete library of letters on this page:

http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/testimonials/
Do not procrastinate the practice of creative visualization and affirmations. Make

it a point to start today. Just a few minutes each day will make a profound
positive change in your life.
We hope you enjoyed this lesson.
In our next lesson we will teach you how to apply your mind to accelerate your
rate of healing in your own body and with loved ones. You will receive this next
lesson in 2 days.
Things You can Do to Expand Your Learning:

1. Get on our Seminar Notification List, so you can be notified if a seminar
comes to your area. You can see our list of seminars here:
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2. Learn more advanced techniques with the Nightingale Conant produced, Silva
UltraMind Home Study Program containing 42 powerful audio recordings. You
can get info here:
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Sources:
1. Napoleon Hill, "Think and Grow Rich," (New York: Fawcett Books, 1960), pp. 158-160.
2. Shakti Gawain, "Creative Visualization," (Novato CA: New World Publishing, 1978), pp. 4-5,
29-30
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3. Michael Talbot, "The Holographic Mind," (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), p. 88.
4. Silva UltraMind System, http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/testimonials/
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Lesson 5
The Mind-Body Connection
How to Regain and Maintain Perfect Health

In our last chapter we explored techniques to use your mind to reprogram your
attitudes, beliefs and habits.
But can the mind go further - can the mind actually influence the physical body in
dramatic ways?
Science is beginning to show that it can. In this chapter we will share information
on some interesting experiments that provide evidence of the powerful mind-
body connection.
We will also show you how you can start using your mind to influence your body
in healthy ways - how to help accelerate your body's natural healing process, and
to slow down the aging process.
The Mind Rules the Body
A sixty-one year old man named Frank was diagnosed as having a fatal form of
throat cancer. His weight had dropped to 98 pounds, he had trouble breathing
and could barely swallow. Doctors placed his survival rate at 5% and even
pondered whether he should be placed under radiation therapy, since the
treatment might only add to his discomfort and not significantly increase his
survival odds.
After much thought, the doctors decided to put him under radiation treatment
anyway. Fortunately for Frank, Dr. O Carl Simonton, then medical director of the
Cancer Counseling and Research Center in Dallas, Texas, was asked to participate
in Frank's treatment.
Simonton suggested that Frank himself had the ability to influence the course of
his own disease and taught Frank a number of relaxation and mental imagery
techniques.
In accordance with Simonton's treatment method Frank had to visualize the

radiation he received as consisting of millions of tiny bullets of energy
bombarding his cells. He also visualized his cancer cells as being weaker than the
normal cells and thus unable to repair the damage they suffered. Then he
visualized his body's white blood cells as coming in and swarming over the
weakened cancer cells and flushing them out of his body through his liver and
kidneys.
The results were astonishing and far exceeded what usually happens when a
patient is treated solely with radiation therapy. Frank experienced almost none of
the negative side effects - the skin and mucous membrane damage that normally
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followed such treatment. In a mere two months he had not only regained his
weight and strength but all signs of his cancer had vanished.
Dr. Simonton believes that Frank's remarkable recovery was due in part to his
daily regimen of visualization exercises. Frank is one of thousands of cancer
patients that have benefited from imagery therapy through the Simonton Cancer
Center (www.simontoncenter.com).
Dr. Simonton, a Silva graduate was once asked to address the audience at a Silva
Convention. "About the Silva system," said Simonton, "I would say it is the most
powerful single tool that I have to offer patients.”
In her part of the address, Stephanie Simonton, Dr. Simonton's wife, talked about
how they used the mental techniques at their clinic. "Probably the single most
important tool we have," she said, "is the mental imagery technique." She then
went on to tell the audience of the need for all of us to take personal
responsibility for our health. "It is up to us to use the technique that all of you
who have had the Silva course have learned and to use it regularly," she said.
In this chapter we will teach you how to apply basic Silva UltraMind techniques to
help you accelerate your rate of healing.
But first, let's discuss a strange phenomenon - the widely observed but little
understood placebo effect.
The Mysterious Placebo Effect
Scientists and doctors have long been puzzled by how certain patients have been
able to heal themselves of life-threatening diseases.
Doctors have found that a patient can trigger self-healing by the mere belief that
they will be cured. This is commonly called the placebo effect.
Doctors are finding that many people manage to get cured when they are given
fake medication, called placebos, which usually consist of nothing more than
sugar pills or distilled water, and then told by their doctors that they were taking
real medication.
There is no explanation for why the placebo effect works, except that somehow,
the patient's belief that they are getting cured triggers some sort of self-healing
ability within the patient. The placebo effect is probably the best-documented way
in which the mind is known to affect the body.
The placebo effect, using some of the most outrageous remedies, has worked
exceptionally well with warts. In 1934, a physician conducted a double-blind
study showing that placebos worked almost as well as sulpharsphenamine, the
drug commonly used to treat warts at the time. 53% of patients given the actual
medicine were cured. But of the patients given the fake medicine which was
nothing more than distilled water and told it was a genuine wart cure, 48% were
cured.
The opposite also works. If you believe something is harmful to you, it tends to
be.
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One study showed that 19 out of 40 subjects developed asthmatic symptoms
after inhaling a saline solution they believed to be allergenic. Twelve developed
full-blown wheezing and bronchial spasms, which disappeared completely three
minutes after receiving another saline solution placebo. The researchers
concluded that suggestion played a significant role in precipitating asthmatic
attacks.
Weirder still - the placebo effect also works with surgery.
In the summer of 1994, a surgeon named J. Bruce Moseley had 10 patients

scheduled for an operation intended to relieve the arthritis pain in their knees. All
10 were wheeled into the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, draped,
examined and anesthetized. All 10 were then dispatched to the recovery room
and sent home from the hospital by the next morning equipped with crutches and
a painkiller. All 10 men believed they had just gone through a reliable medical
surgery to cure them of their knee arthritis pain. But this was not the case.
In fact, while two of the men would undergo the standard arthroscopic surgery
for their condition - the scraping and rinsing of the knee joint - and three would
have the rinsing alone, five would have no recognized surgical procedure at all.
Their surgery would be a placebo. Moseley would cut the placebo patients' knees
three times with a scalpel - to make it feel and look real, there had to be incisions
and scars for the patient to believe he had undergone surgery - but that was it.
The placebo worked. Six months after surgery, the 10 patients still didn't know
whether they had been faked out or not. But all of them reported much less pain.
The placebo effect can be so powerful that all modern drugs have to be tested
against a placebo before they are released to the public. And many former
treatments and drugs have been taken off the market when their healing
properties were found to be solely due to the placebo effect.
Other Evidence for Mind Body Interaction
Hypnotism is another way to demonstrate the mind-body effect. A hypnotist can

cause someone to trigger their body's own healing mechanism at will. Jose Silva
used to demonstrate how he could put someone into a hypnotic state of mind and
then suggest to them that the pencil he was holding was red hot and that if the
pencil touched their skin they would feel no pain, but their skin would produce a
blister. One in five people would actually develop the blister from the touch of the
pencil. The blister could then be made to disappear automatically, again with
mere suggestion.
A good hypnotist can even get a subject to tan their skin on command.
Another weird phenomenon of mind-body interaction is that of people with

multiple or split personalities. Psychologists have observed that when multiples
switch personalities their body also shows dramatic changes.
Eyesight can improve or worsen, allergies can reappear or disappear and even
brain wave patterns can change. Multiples can also change their voice patterns in
ways that even the best actors cannot emulate.
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This leads to an interesting question - just how much of your physical body is
influenced by your belief system? The gap between mind and body seems almost
non-existent. Jose Silva believed that as much as 90% of all physical ailments are
induced and curable by the mind.
The Growing Acceptance
The scientific evidence for mind-body healing is well established and public
acceptance is now mainstream.
A 1990 Gallup Poll on American attitudes to paranormal phenomenon found that

25% of Americans had had success with mental healing.
Furthermore, according to a now famous survey published in 1993 in the New

England Journal of Medicine, 34% of adult Americans reported using at least one
unconventional therapy in the past year. This includes meditation, yoga and
visualization techniques.
The May 2001 Gallup Poll discovered that “Americans with the highest levels of
education are more likely to believe in the power of the mind to heal the body”.
And finally, the 1993 New England Journal of Medicine survey found that
alternative medicine – a category which includes mind-body healing, energy
healing and spiritual healing – is most likely to be practiced not by the socially
marginal or the cognitively defective but by affluent (incomes above $35,000),
college-educated people.
But Can Your Mind Heal Someone Else's Body?
Let's ask a more daring question.
Can you use your mind to heal a loved one - at a distance?
Some of the most surprising evidence for distant healing comes from psychologist
William Braud and his colleagues at The Mind Science Foundation of San Antonio,
Texas. Braud's studies, conducted over 17 years, involved having people mentally
attempt to influence the nervous system of remote participants.
The results of the study were simply mind blowing.
Braud would wire up the first group of people, known as receivers, to machines
that measured up to seven different physiological responses such as blood
pressure, skin conductivity and muscle tremor.
A second group of people, known as senders, would be placed in a different room

and asked to attempt to arouse or calm the receiver solely by thinking about
them. Both senders and receivers were ordinary people who had volunteered for
the study.
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Braud's 37 experiments involved 665 sessions, 449 people and 13 experimenters.
What Braud found was that at the exact moment the sender was asked to think
of their receiver, the receiver would show a change in his or her physiological
condition.
The 37 experiments combined resulted in odds against chance of more than 100
trillion to one in favor of distant mental interactions between the participants.
In short, the ability of one person's mind to affect another person's body
is scientific fact.
But Just How Powerful is it?
Okay, so we know that one person's mind can somehow influence someone else's
physical body - but is the effect really powerful enough to make a difference in
someone's state of health?
Again, the answer is surprising.
The effects of distant healing have been proven to be significantly larger than
many drugs deemed to be highly successful in medicine.
For example, numerous studies have shown that propranolol and aspirin are
effective in reducing heart attacks. But their effects pale in comparison to distant
healing.
Effect sizes of drugs are measured on a scale from 0 to 1. An effect size of 0.03 in
a medical life or death situation would mean that 3 out of 100 people survived.
An effect size of 0.3 would mean that an additional 30 out of 100 survived.
In medical tests the effect size of aspirin on reducing heart attack is 0.03. The
effect size of propranolol was not much higher, at 0.04. These sizes were
sufficient enough proof for the government to authorize the drug manufacturers
to state that their products prevents heart attack.
But the effect size of distant healing in Braud's experiments was a surprising
0.25.
This means that if 100 people were going through a therapy with a success rate
of 35%, this success rate would go up to 60% with the addition of distant
healing. Almost twice as many patients would be saved.
In his studies, Braud also discovered some strange properties of distant healing.
His volunteers were asked to participate in another experiment where they would
attempt to mentally calm down two groups. One was a group of highly nervous
people and the other a calmer group.
First, Braud found that the distant healing effect was the strongest when the
person on the receiving end actually had a serious need for healing. The effect
size on the highly nervous group was far larger than on the calm group.
More surprisingly, he found that the effect size on the agitated group by those
trying to calm them down was only slightly less than the effect that people had
on themselves when using relaxation techniques.
In statistical terms this means that other people could have the same
mind-body effect on you as you could have on yourself and vice-versa.

The Five Rules for Mind-Body Healing
William Braud outlined five major mental techniques that he believed have
important effects on the self-healing processes.
They include:
1. The need for relaxation and quietude.
2. Learning to focus your attention on one thing (e.g. breathing) which allows
you to develop mental self-control and avoid distractions.
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(The above two points are achieved through meditation)
3. Learning visualization or imagery techniques since pictures are the
preferred language of the mind.
4. Incorporating intent into the process, a wish for some goal to be reached
and an expectation that it will.
5. The evocations of strong positive emotions during the healing process.
The healing system developed by Jose Silva almost two decades before Braud's
research had already incorporated these five elements.
Braud's research had finally provided scientific credibility to Silva's technique.
Next, you will learn Silva's basic healing technique.

The Technique for Self Healing
The following is the basic technique. The more advanced techniques are beyond
the scope of this e-book.
1. Go to your alpha level of mind. (Get the Alpha audio here).
2. Imagine your body on the mental screen (we explained the mental screen in
Chapter 4).
3. Visualize the current condition of the body, including the ailment or pain that is
bothering you. You do not need memorize or know what each component of your
body actually looks like. Simple pictures are enough to speak to your mind. A
lung can be imagined as a balloon. A kidney can resemble a kidney bean. Form a
representative picture of the ailment. Feel the emotions associated with this
problem.
4. Now visualize the ailment disappearing. Create, with your imagination, a
system to remove the ailment. For examples:
 kidney stones can be crushed into harmless powder that is then excreted.
 tumors can be visualized as large block blobs, while your immune system
and white blood cells as tiny soldiers attacking the tumor. On each attack
the tumor shrinks.
 a sore muscle can be bathed in an imaginary healing light which alleviates

the pain and restores the muscle to a healthy state.
The exact image you use is irrelevant - create something that speaks to you. It
does not have to be scientifically correct. It only has to be symbolic. Your
subconscious mind will get the message.
5. Let the final picture be one of perfect health. Feel the joy and energy of having
perfect health. Imagine it to be true and already occurring.
It helps to say an affirmation such as
"I have a perfectly healthy body and mind" or "My ______ is now functioning
perfectly and are in a state of excellent health."
6. Let go and trust your body's self healing ability. You can now come out of the
alpha level. Trust that the healing action is taking place.
Please note that mental healing should never be used as a replacement for a visit
to your doctor. Always consult a doctor first for serious health conditions. Mental
healing is a form of complimentary medicine - as the name suggests it is to be
used alongside but not as a replacement for modern medicine.
No matter what type of healing you use - conventional medicine, surgery, or
more holistic therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, or massage - the Silva system
can speed and smooth the normal healing process amazingly.
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If you have no health problems and are perfectly healthy right now, you can still
meditate and visualize yourself staying in perfect health. This way you may never
have to worry about having to heal yourself.

What You Learn in the Seminar
In Silva Seminars we actually go one step beyond self healing. Class members
are paired up with each other and one takes the role of the healer and the other
takes the role of a guide. The guide provides the healer with nothing more than
the name, age, gender and location of the person to be healed. This person is
known as the subject.
The healer then goes to their alpha level of mind and is able to detect information
on the mental and physical condition of the subject. The results are often jaw-
dropping for the students. The majority of students usually manage to get specific
details about the health condition of their subject correct. These details are often
so accurate that they could not have simply been "guessed". We do this to
demonstrate to people the powerful psychic abilities of their mind.
This phenomenon is commonly called ESP or remote viewing. In the next lesson
we will look at some of Jose Silva's discoveries before we move on to showing
you how you can develop your ESP.

Personal Healing Experiences
Before we end this lesson, we will share some letters we have received from
students who have taken the Silva UltraMind seminar or used the home study
program.
Again, keep in mind that these students attended the seminar or used the home
study course, both of which contain advanced techniques beyond the scope of
this e-book program.
One can still get excellent results from just the basic techniques outlined in this
program but you will have to practice much harder and start with smaller healing
goals while you build up your belief system and confidence.

Healing the Skin
"I had a bad case of acne for 5 years. I had read that the skin is one of
the easiest things to heal with the mind. So I started visualizing my
skin getting clearer and clearer. I used the Mental Screen technique
from Silva while going to my meditative level. Three weeks later the
acne stopped breaking out. Its now been 7 years and I have had no
recurrence of them."
~ letter on file
Healing Thyroid Nodules

"Had an ultrasound on my thyroid and it showed I had three nodules.
As soon as I got this news I started using a technique to remove them
through visualization. I went in this past Monday for a biopsy of the
three nodules. The women who was doing the ultrasound and I just
knew in my gut that they were gone. She told me she had to talk with
[the] Doc. The Doc said there are absolutely no nodules there to
biopsy. What a mind blowing experience. I was actually surprised the
technique worked because i have problems with visualizing."
~ Bill K., New Jersey
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Healing Foot Problem
"Silva had helped me tremendously with a bad case of plantar warts on
my feet. The were so painful I walked with a limp for eight months.
Doctors told me I had to go through a painful surgery to have them
removed. They surgery would also leave scars on my feet. I scheduled
the surgery but I also tried visualization, hoping the warts would
disappear before surgery and I could avoid the scars and the medical
expenses. I used a combination of Silva and Reiki. I had the warts for
almost 7 months before I used Silva. I spent 15 minutes a day for
about 8 weeks visualizing them disappear and when I showed up for
surgery the doctor was amazed. All signs of the warts had completely
disappeared. Its been 3 years and I have had no recurrence."
~ Tom, New York
Accelerating Recovery
"I can't believe that I had a skin graft two weeks ago. My foot was still
swollen. I went to level to get rid of the swelling. This morning I woke
up and my ankle was normal size. It will probably swell again, but I'm
going back to level and get rid of it again. This stuff works. I love it."
~ LC
Healing the Whole Family

"My family and I have felt instant relief with minor aches and pains
immediately. This works faster than ibuprofen and acetaminophen!"
~ CR, Santa Rosa, California
100% Migraine Free

"I suffered with migraine headaches for as long as I can remember,
and that was part of the reason I wanted to take the course, because I
heard people have so much success with that. I took the course in
August, and have been 100 percent successful in keeping myself
migraine free since then without medication! I am so happy, you just
don't know."
~ Evelyn P, Rhode Island
Cured Back Problem

"I had a back problem for 30 years. You cleared it up in 30 seconds.
The best seminar I have ever attended. Fantastic. No words to describe
the class. Fantastic will have to do."
~ FS, Los Angeles
Never Felt More Relaxed in My Life

"I have never felt more relaxed and at peace in my whole live, the
centering and meditation exercises are remarkable. You feel alive and
fully charged after just 10 minutes. I came in as a skeptic having read
about the remote viewing exercise. When I succeeded with my first
case by the end of the two day seminar I was blown away. An
incredible journey into the inner workings of the mind. While I don't
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fully comprehend how it works, I now know for myself that it does
work."
~ Michael R, Manager of Corporate Strategy, Ebay.

If you are seeking to expand your healing skills we recommend trying the Silva
UltraMind Home Study Program by Nightingale Conant. You can get full details
here:
The live Seminar is another great way to develop your healing skills and stay
healthier and happier throughout your lifetime. You can get full details here:
We hope you enjoyed this lessons.
May you get better and healthier day by day.
Sources:
1. Dean Radin, PhD, "The Conscious Universe," (HarperEdge, 1997), p.153-155.
2. Lynne McTaggart, "The Field," (Quill, 2003), p.117, 132-133.
3. Margaret Talbot, "The Placebo Prescription," (New York Times, Jan 9, 2000).
4. William Braud, "Mental Techniques for Self-Healing and for Remote Viewing," ASPR
Newsletter, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, pp. 4-8.
5. Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992), 250-251.
6. Michael Talbot, "The Holographic Universe," (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991), pp. 82-85,
87-88.
7. Shakti Gawain, "Creative Visualization," (Novato CA: New World Publishing, 1978), pp. 80-
81.
8. Michael Schmicker, "Best Evidence," (Lincoln NE: Writers Club Press, 2002), pp. 3-10.
9. Silva UltraMind System, http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/testimonials/
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Lesson 6
Jose Silva's Discoveries
The Fascinating Story of How the Silva Programs Began
In our last four Lessons we have showed you how to:
 reach a deep meditative level of mind with ease. (Lesson 2)

 gain inspiration at alpha. (Lesson 3)
 use creative visualization to manifest your goals. (Lesson 4)
 accelerate your body's rate of healing. (Lesson 5)
In this Lesson we will take a look at how Jose Silva first became interested in the
workings of the human mind and how this lead to his world renown mind training
programs.
The Silva story is fascinating and insightful. It will give you a clearer idea of how
his methods work and how you can use them in your life. The story also mentions
some amazing coincidences that Silva experienced - coincidences that seemed to
guide him towards what would ultimately become a body of work that would help
millions of people discover their own latent abilities.
The Beginning
Jose Silva was born on August 11, 1914, in Laredo, Texas. When he was four, his
father died. His mother soon remarried, and he, his older sister, and younger
brother moved in with their grandmother. Two years later he became the family
bread-winner, selling newspapers, shining shoes, and doing odd jobs. In the
evenings he watched his sister and brother do their homework, and they helped
him learn to read and write.
He has never gone to school, except to teach.
Jose's rise from poverty began one day when he was waiting his turn in a
barbershop. He reached for something to read. What he picked up was a lesson
from a correspondence course on how to repair radios. Jose asked to borrow it,
but the barber would only rent it, and only on the condition that Jose complete
the correspondence course examinations in the barber's name. Each week Jose
paid a dollar, read the lesson, and completed the examination.
Soon a diploma hung in the barbershop, while across town Jose, at the age of
fifteen, began to repair radios. As the years passed, his repair business became
one of the largest in the area, providing money for the education of his brother
and sister, the wherewithal for him to marry, plus eventually some half-million
dollars to finance the twenty years of research that led to his mind training
systems.
The man who sparked Silva's research was a psychiatrist whose job was to ask
questions of men being inducted into the Signal Corps during World War II.
"Do you wet your bed?" the Army psychiatrist asked. Jose was dumbfounded. "Do
you like women?" Jose, the father of three, and destined one day to be the father
of ten, was shocked.
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Surely, he thought, the man knew more about the human mind than the barber
knew about radios. Why such odd questions?
It was this perplexing moment that started Jose on an odyssey of scientific

research that led to his becoming one of the most creative scholars of his age.
Through their writings, Freud, Jung, and Adler became his early teachers.
The "odd" questions took on deeper meanings, and soon Jose was ready to ask a
question of his own: Is it possible, using hypnosis, to improve a person's learning
ability - in fact, to raise his I.Q.? In those days I.Q. was believed to be something
we were born with, but Jose was not so sure.
The question had to wait while he studied advanced electronics to become an

instructor in the Signal Corps. When he was discharged, with savings gone and
$200 in his pocket, he began slowly to rebuild his radio repair business. At the
same time he took on a part-time teaching job at Laredo Junior College where he
supervised three other teachers and was charged with creating the school's
electronics laboratories.
Five years later, with television on the scene, his repair business began to flourish
and Jose called a halt to his teaching career. His business once again became the
largest in town. His workdays ended about nine each night. He would have
dinner, help put the children to bed, and when the house was quiet, study for
about three hours. His studies led him further into hypnosis.
What he learned about hypnosis, plus what he knew about electronics, and some
F's on his children's report cards brought him back to the question he had raised
earlier - can learning ability, the I.Q., be improved through some kind of mental
training?

Can Learning Ability Be Raised Through Mind Training?
Jose already knew that the mind generates electricity - he had read about
experiments early in the century that revealed the Alpha brain wave rhythm. And
he knew from his work in electronics that the ideal circuit is the one with the least
resistance, or impedance, because it makes the greatest use of its electrical
energy. Would the brain work more effectively too if its impedance were lowered?
And can its impedance be lowered?
Jose began using hypnosis to quiet the minds of his children and he discovered
what to many appeared to be a paradox. He found that the brain was more
energetic when it was less active. At lower frequencies the brain received and
stored more information. The crucial problem was to keep the mind alert at these
frequencies, which are associated more with daydreaming and sleep than with
practical activity.
Hypnosis permitted the receptivity Jose was looking for, but not the kind of
independent thought that leads to reasoning things out so they can be
understood. Having a head full of remembered facts is not enough; insight and
understanding are necessary, too.
Jose soon abandoned hypnosis and began experimenting with mental training
exercises to quiet the brain yet keep it more independently alert than in hypnosis.
This, he reasoned, would lead to improved memory combined with understanding
and hence to higher I.Q. scores.
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The exercises from which Silva's techniques evolved called for relaxed
concentration and vivid mental visualization and ways of reaching lower levels.
Once reached, these levels proved more effective than the fully awake level, the
Beta level, in learning. The proof was in his children's sharply improved grades
over a three-year period while he continued to improve his techniques.
Jose had now scored a new discovery - a very significant one, which other
research, principally biofeedback, has since confirmed. He was the first person to
prove that we can learn to function with awareness at the Alpha and Theta
frequencies of the brain.
Another discovery, an equally astonishing one, was soon to come.

Silva's Daughter Reads His Mind
One evening Jose's daughter had gone to her "center" (to use today's Silva
UltraMind terminology), and Jose was questioning her about her studies. As she
answered each question, he framed the next in his mind. This was the usual
procedure, and so far the session was no different from hundreds that had gone
before. Suddenly, the routine was momentously changed.
Jose would frame the question in his mind first, before verbally asking the
question. All of a sudden, his daughter answered the very question he was
planning on asking - before he had a chance to verbally express the question.
She repeated this again and again. Jose would only frame the question in his
mind and she would answer it. She was reading his mind.
This was in 1953, when ESP was becoming a respectable subject for scientific
inquiry, largely through the published work of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University.
Jose wrote to Dr. Rhine to report that he had trained his daughter to practice ESP
and received a disappointing answer. Dr. Rhine hinted that the girl might have
been psychic to begin with. Without tests of the girl before the training, there was
no way to tell.
Meanwhile, Jose's neighbors noticed that his children's schoolwork had

remarkably improved. At the beginning of his experiments these highly religious
people had been wary of his probing into the unknown. However, the success of a
man working with his own children could not be ignored. Would Jose train their
children too?
After the letter from Dr. Rhine, this was just what Jose needed. If what he had
accomplished with one child could be accomplished with others, he would have
chalked up the kind of repeatable experiments that are the basis to the scientific
method.
Over the next ten years he trained 39 Laredo children, with even better results
because he improved his techniques a little with each child.
He had developed the first method in history that can train anyone to use ESP,
and he had thirty-nine repeatable experiments to prove it. Now to perfect the
method.

Silva's Course Takes Shape
Within another three years, Jose developed the course of training which is now
standard and as effective with adults as with children. Back then it took 40 to 48
hours. It has since been reduced to 18 to 20 hours through further refinement of
technique.
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So far it has been validated by some 1,000,000 experiments - the graduates of
his course. This is a measure of repeatability that no open-minded scientist can
ignore.
These long years of research were financed by Jose's growing electronics

business. No university or foundation or government grants were available for
such an unusual field of research.
With all this success, Jose did not become a celebrity, nor a guru or spiritual
leader with followers or disciples. He was a plain man of simple ways, who spoke
with the soft, almost lost accent of a Mexican-American. He was a powerfully
built, stocky man with a kindly face that creases easily into a smile.
Anyone who asked Jose what success has meant to him was answered with a
flood of success stories.
A few examples:
A woman wrote to the Boston Herald American begging for some way to help her
husband, who was tormented by migraine headaches. The newspaper printed her
letter, then another letter the next day from someone else, also pleading for a
way to control such headaches.
A physician read these letters and wrote that she had had migraine headaches all
her life. She had taken Jose Silva's course and had not had one since. "And would
you believe it, the next introductory lecture was mobbed. Absolutely mobbed,"
said Jose.
Another physician, a prominent psychiatrist, advises all his patients to study Silva
techniques because it gives them insights that in some cases would require two
years of therapy to produce.
An entire marketing company was organized as a co-op by graduates who used

what they learned in the Silva Mind Method to invent new products and devise
ways of marketing them. In its third year, the company had eighteen products on
the market.
An advertising man used to need about two months to create a campaign for new
clients - about average in his field. Then after Silva training, the basic ideas come
in twenty minutes and the rest of the work was done in two weeks.
Fourteen Chicago White Sox players took Silva's class. All their individual
averages improved, most of them dramatically.
A husband of an overweight woman suggested she try the class because all her
diets had failed. She agreed, provided he went too. She lost twenty pounds in six
weeks; he stopped smoking.
A professor at a college of pharmacy teaches Silva techniques to his students.

"Their grades are going up in all their courses, with less studying, and they're
more relaxed. ... Everybody already knows how to use his or her imagination. I
just get my students to practice it more."
The press also wrote about Silva's new program. The following extract from an
April 16, 1972 New York Times article "Can Man Control His Mind" says it all.
"A recent study by Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex. would appear to indicate
that graduates of Mind Control do attain a high degree of Alpha production. C. W.
Post College, Greenvale, L. I., is planning to offer the course at its business
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school this fall and Canisius College will offer it in its Department of Religious
Studies.
A visit to a Mind Control class in New York discloses more stockbrokers than
bearded way outs and the dress style is closer to Brookes Brothers than to the
East Village. A major New York company has sent all its top executives through
the course and its president, a hard-headed businessman is seriously thinking of
instituting an in-house training program for all employees. He refused to speak
for the record, saying, "We think there is something there, but I don't want to
alarm our stockbrokers at the moment."
Other businessmen are not so reluctant. Lee Epstein, a vice- president and art
group supervisor at Doyle Dane Bernbach volunteered: "It opened the gates for
me. It has re-energized me, made me more creative and yet more relaxed. I
practice it every day and get better and better at my job and my life."
Although Jose smiled easily, when he heared people tell him "Jose, you've
changed my life!" the smile fades a little and he would say, "No, I didn't do it. You
did, with your own mind."
Jose passed away peacefully in February of 1999. The Silva UltraMind System
was his final creation and was completed shortly before he departed.

A Series of Remarkable Coincidences
Here we have included a personal story from Jose Silva about a fascinating
experience he went through while developing his Silva mind training methods. We
have re-printed the story here from Jose's first-person perspective.
I want to mention an experience that I went through, which I feel was

responsible for the continuation of our research. In fact, I will say that if this
experience had not taken place, our mind training system would not exist today.
This happened while I was still studying psychology. I had studied and practiced
hypnosis and was investigating parapsychology, but had not yet trained the first
subject to function as a clairvoyant. During this time I went through a period of
disillusionment. I worked long hours and I was the one to close our electronics
business establishment at nine each night.
Usually after closing the business at nine I would go home, have dinner and help
Paula, my wife, put the children to bed. By that time it would be about eleven at
night and I would take out the psychology books and study for two, three and
sometimes four hours. One night I suddenly realized that what I was reading did
not make sense any more. I said, "What am I doing to myself, studying
psychology? I am not a psychologist, nor do I plan to become one. I had a heavy
day's work yesterday and I am going to have another heavy day of work
tomorrow, and here I am wasting good hours of sleep, studying psychology!"
I closed the book and threw it on the floor. It slid under a couch and I said to
myself, "That is the last time I will have anything to do with psychology!"
I went to sleep immeidately but two hours later a bright light inside my head
woke me up. It was a light like the mid-day sun when you look up into space on a
cloudless sunny day. Hanging in space were two sets of numbers, one set over
the other. The first set was 3-4-3, the second set under the first one was 3-7-3.
Right after that an impression of Christ and the "One Solitary Life" poem given to
me at the army reception center came to me. "Why Christ?" I wondered, "Why
me? What does this have to do with the numbers?"
I opened my eyes and it was dark. I glanced at the clock on the bed stand and it
was 4:30 in the morning.
Fascinated, I tried some experiments with myself and the light. I closed my eyes
trying to keep the bright light from disappearing since it was fading gradually. I
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tried breathing slowly, but that did not help. I tried changing positions, but that
did not help either. I tried to slow down my heart, but whatever I did was not
enough. The bright light continued to fade, until it went out completely.
I stayed awake from there on, trying to analyze what had happened. I thought of
Paula, and how she used to jokingly tell me, "They say that people who read too
much go crazy." I was not going to tell her about the light in my head because I
knew her answer would be, "I told you so!" But one thing I kept thinking of was
that for whatever reason this happened, it must be all right because of the
impression of Christ (my inherited religious belief system) that came to me with
the experience.
The first explanation I thought of was that maybe I was supposed to call someone
who has that phone number. I went through the telephone book from cover to
cover but did not find any listing for the numbers I had seen. My next idea was
that maybe I should go to someone's home who has these numbers as their
address and if I find it, they might have a message for me. But when I studied a
city map, I found that the home addresses in Laredo did not use those numbers.
It was about four in the afternoon when I came up with another idea: I'd look at
automobile and truck license plate numbers. I did this for the rest of the day,
ready to ask for my message from the driver of any vehicle that had those
numbers, but I did not find a car or truck license to match my mysterious
numbers.
It was fifteen minutes before nine when I started to close my business. My wife
came in from our house next door and said to me, "If you go across the river into
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, for a service call, please get me a bottle of alcohol." We
use Mexican alcohol for medicinal purposes because it is pure and costs less than
alcohol in Laredo. We have to let them put a cube of camphor in it when they sell
it to us, so we do not have to pay a liquor tax on it. When the tax people at the
border smell the camphor in the alcohol they don't charge us any liquor tax. I told
Paula, "Honey, I don't have service calls from across the border, but I will go and
get you a bottle anyway."
At that very moment, an old friend of mine came in to invite me to go for some
coffee. I said, "Help me to close my place and we will go right now." I then asked
him how much time he had and he answered, "All the time in the world. Why?" I
told him I wanted to go across into Mexico to get my wife a bottle of alcohol. He
said, "Fine. I'll go with you."
While on the way I figured I could tell my friend about my experience since he
had been studying psychology with me for one year. I felt sure he was not going
to think I was crazy. I had not told anyone all day and I needed to tell someone,
so I told him. While crossing the bridge into Mexico my friend suggested, "Now
that we are coming into Mexico and a national lottery operates in Mexico, maybe
there is such a number." I had not thought of that. "What have we got to lose?" I
said. The lottery agency was just one block and a half further up the same street
where we were going to get the alcohol.
We stopped right in front of the lottery agency. It was closed. It closed at nine
o'clock and we had just missed it. "Finding it closed means for me to forget it. It
is not supposed to be here,” I told my friend. We then went to the liquor store
and while I was getting Paula's alcohol and getting the clerk to put the camphor
in the bottle my friend went to a back room where he found some lottery tickets
that were hanging on a string.
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"What numbers are you looking for?" my friend called from the adjoining room. I
said, "3-4-3 and 3-7-3." He called back "3-4-3 is here." I said. "You are kidding
me, are you not?" My friend then answered, "Come and see."
Sure enough, there were five segments of an active series numbered 3-4-3. A
whole or complete, series contained 20 segments or units. Someone had already
purchased the other 15 segments. My friend asked, "What do you intend to do
now? Buy these, of course!" So I bought them. I had never ever thought of
buying lottery tickets, but now I was buying 5 segments and would find out in 2
days if the number 3-4-3 would win anything.

The Winning Lottery Ticket
At the time I did not know that you could call the lottery agency by phone and
find out if the ticket had won anything. I thought I had to go in person, which is
what I did. I found out that the ticket 3-7-3 had been sold in Mexico City. It could
not have been found anywhere else because the 3-7-3 was assigned to be sold in
Mexico City only. If I had purchased the 3-7-3, I would clear, after paying the
Mexican income tax, about one thousand dollars.
On the other hand, the 3-4-3 was assigned to be sold by the liquor store in Nuevo
Laredo and nobody else in the whole Republic of Mexico could have had it. The 3-
4-3 had a prize too and after paying the Mexican income tax and exchanging the
Mexican money into United States dollars, I cleared a little above ten thousand
dollars with just my 5 segments out of the 20 on the ticket. I came home dazed,
with $10,000 dollars in my pockets, and in 1949 that was a lot of money!
[Editors Note: $10,000 in 1949 is roughly equal to $50,000 in today's monetary
value.]
In trying to figure out who had put that number in my head and why, I went
back over my experience step by step and found many coincidences. For
example, my wife wanted a bottle of alcohol from Mexico and came over and
asked me on that particular day. She had said, "Whenever you go to make a
service call across the border, get me a bottle of alcohol." I could have said, “I
will get you a bottle the next time I make a service call." Or I could have said,
"Send someone else, I don't have time for those petty things." Instead I said, "I
will go tonight and get you a bottle, honey." Paula did not know about my
experience, much less did I know that she was sending me to the one place in the
entire Republic of Mexico where the ticket was sold.
And what timing! If my friend had come only ten minutes later, I would have
already been gone, by myself. If the clerk had not had to put camphor into the
bottle, we would have been out of the store before my friend had a chance to
look around and find the adjacent room with the lottery tickets. If my friend had
not gone with me, I would not have gotten the idea of buying a lottery ticket, nor
would I have walked into the other room and seen the tickets.
After backtracking and after going over every detail of the experience I found
myself faced with many coincidences. I felt that those coincidences were trying to
tell me something or that somebody was trying to tell me something through
those coincidences. There were so many coincidences that I was sure there were
a pattern and a purpose. I then felt that I must seek and find out what it was that
I was supposed to do, or not to do.
I started going back prior to having the experience, hour by hour, step by step,
seeking a clue. The only thing I saw that could have had a connection and could
have brought on the series of coincidences was the decision I made not to
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continue studying psychology. Two hours after I had decided to discontinue to
study psychology the experience took place and in the experience came the
awareness of the "One Solitary Life" or Christ.
I then made the connection and remembered that the first impression I had
about psychology came accompanied by the impression of the "One Solitary Life"
of Christ. That happened when I finished talking with the psychiatrist at the
reception center as I was inducted into the army. The next person in line gave me
the picture of Christ that I still carry in my wallet to this day. On the back of the
picture of Christ is written the "One Solitary Life" by an unknown author. I had
never read the "One Solitary Life" of Christ before being inducted into the army
and I do not know why when I finished reading it there were tears in my eyes. To
this day, when I think about it, I get a lump in my throat.
With that realization I got on my knees and looked under the couch for the book
on psychology, pulled it out, dusted it off and continued with the study-of-
psychology routine. I choose to believe that the experience with the psychiatrist
at the reception center, along with this awareness of Christ, was the beginning of
my research into the human mind.
My many coincidences with the lottery ticket experience were a means of getting
back on track and reinforcing the original reception center-psychiatrist-Christ
awareness experience. From then on I started experimenting, trying to put
together a method that would help to enhance what I used to call "the guessing
faculty." What I called "the guessing faculty" turned out to be psi, or the intuitive
factor.
And so Jose Silva began the work that was to lead to the Silva UltraMind System.
Silva would later develop a technique he called the Mental-Video technique, which
anyone could use to gain similar types of coincidences and "a-ha" moments that
Jose Silva experienced during the events mentioned above.
The technique is beyond the scope of this written course but it is covered in the
Silva UltraMind System Seminar and Home Study Program. Info on these are
available here:
Seminar: http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/seminars/
Home Study: http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/products/
In our next chapter we will teach you more advanced techniques for using your
mind and we will discuss the scientific evidence for ESP.
We will also show you how you can develop your intuition and ESP

Sources:
1. Jose Silva, "I Have a Hunch: The Autobiography of Jose Silva, " (Laredo TX: Institute of
Psychorientology, 1985).
2. William D. Smith, "Can Man Control His Mind: Brain Wave Studies Intrigue Business," (New
York Times, April 16, 1972).
3. Jose Silva and Phillip Miele, "The Silva Mind Control Method," (London: Grafton Books, 1978).
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Lesson 7
Harnessing Your Intuition
ESP - You have it - You can learn to use it.
The term ESP stands for extra-sensory perception and refers to communication or
perception by means outside the normal five senses.
ESP was once dismissed as superstition but its existence has been repeatedly
verified by numerous scientist and researchers in leading universities around the
world.
ESP, also called intuition, is a common faculty we all possess. Some people
simply use it better than others.
A scientist by the name of J. B. Rhine conducted the first scientific experiments

on ESP in the 1930s 40s at Duke University.
Dr. Rhine had people attempt to guess which of five symbols would be on a
playing card facing away from them. The odds of guessing correctly are one in
five or 20%. But Dr. Rhine found that many people had accuracy rates far beyond
this.
In some experiments the odds in favor of ESP were 22 billion to one. This proved
that something was occurring which was allowing people to guess which cards
were being picked, and this guessing was correct to a remarkable degree. The
laws of probability were being violated.
His experiments also showed that distance, space and time played no significant
effect on the success of the phenomenon. A highly trained subject in France could
guess the outcome of a card drawn in the US just as well when she was across
the Atlantic Ocean, as when she was sitting directly opposite the person drawing
the cards.
Furthermore, the subject could guess the outcome of a card drawn a year into the
future - again with the same degree of accuracy.
Dr. Rhine's experiments sent shock-waves across academia as other scientist

raced to confirm them. His book Extra-Sensory Perception after 60 years became
required reading for the introductory psychology class at Harvard University. His
experiments were repeated around the world 309 times involving 50,000+ people
and 2 million sessions - proving without a doubt that ESP is real.
The Growing Acceptance of ESP
In the early part of the 20th century Einstein said:
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift.
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Today, with the jump in empirical scientific evidence and first-hand human
experiences, belief in human intuition and ESP is rapidly rising.
The 1990 Gallup public opinion poll found that 93% of Americans polled believed
in one or more of 18 paranormal phenomena, including ESP, mental healing,
telepathy and clairvoyance.
And this number is increasing.
A follow up poll eleven years later, in May 2001 found that belief had actually
increased in twelve out of thirteen phenomena measured in both the 1990 and
2001 polls – and increased significantly (5% or more) in seven of them.
Today, more Americans believe in ESP, telepathy, and mind-body healing than
disbelieve.
The 1990 Gallup Poll also asked Americans if they had had first-hand experience
with paranormal phenomena. The results were surprising.
25% of Americans had experienced telepathy.

25% had success with mental healing.
More and more people are not only believing in ESP and mental healing, but are
also experiencing and using it. Belief in mental and spiritual healing has
increased significantly (up 8%) between 1990 and 2001.
"Sure," say the skeptics, "the majority of Americans may believe in ESP but this
is usually the less educated majority. Educated people can't be taking this
seriously, right?"
Wrong.
Studies have shown that, as education increases, belief in ESP also increases.
The May 2001 Gallup Poll discovered that “Americans with the highest levels of
education are more likely to believe in the power of the mind to heal the body”.
The same is true for ESP and telepathy.
One major study done in 1977 found a positive correlation between intelligence
and paranormal belief - the more intelligent you were, the more you believed in a
world beyond the five senses.
Another 1984 study, a sample of high school students, found higher grade point
averages correlated positively with belief in ESP phenomenon.
Finally, a 1989 CBS television poll done in conjunction with 48 hours uncovered
that 75% of persons with a college degree believed in paranormal phenomena,
while only 36% of people with less than a high school degree believed in these
phenomena. In short, as education increased, so did belief.
If you believe in ESP - congratulations.
The majority of educated Americans now share your belief.
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The Stunning Scientific Evidence
Scientific research on ESP is still in its infancy. But the evidence being produced is
highly compelling. Here are summaries of recent discoveries.
1 . Everyone has ESP to some degree.

In the 1960s, Dr. Montague Ullman, founder of the Dream Laboratory at the
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and professor emeritus of
clinical psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York
conducted a series of experiments that provided strong empirical evidence that
everyone possesses psychic ability.
In Dr Ullman's study volunteers who claimed to possess no psychic ability were

asked to sleep in a room in the lab while a person in another room concentrated
on a randomly selected painting and tried to get the volunteer to dream of the
image it contained. Sometimes the results were inconclusive. But other times the
volunteers had dreams that were clearly and strikingly influenced by the
paintings.
2. The greater your belief - the stronger your ESP ability.

Dr. G. R. Schmeidler of the Harvard Psychological Clinic went on to show that
telepathy was not only real, but was strongly affected by a person's belief in his
or her own telepathic abilities. He also performed experiments that proved that
telepathic power exists in everyone.
3. The mind can influence matter at any distance

In the 1980s and 1990s Dr. Robert G. Jahn and Dr. Brenda J. Dunne of the
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory showed that some humans
possess telekinetic power and various forms of telepathy and that these are both
distance and time independent.
Dr. Jahn is Professor of Aerospace science and dean emeritus of the School of
Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University (1994). Dr. Dunne is the
manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory (P.E.A.R).
Their book Margins of Reality - The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
will make even the strongest skeptic think twice.

4. The evidence for ESP is very strong.

More recently. Professor Robert Morris and Dr. Caroline Watt of the Koestler
Institute at Edinburgh University conducted experiments where over 100 subjects
in a locked room were asked to pick out which of four pictures were "beamed" to
them by a subject in another room. Success rates were 50%, twice the 25% that
pure statistical results should have produced. The odds of this occurring are
approximately 1 in 14 million.
These results are 35,000 times more significant than the level of evidence
governments demand from pharmaceutical companies before a new drug is let
out on the market.
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The conclusion:
ESP is real.
And all of us possess the ability.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the

pursuit of science becomes convinced that a
Spirit is manifest in the Laws of the Universe.
~ Albert Einstein
A Word of Caution
When it comes to belief in ESP, people tend to fall into four different groups.
Which one are you?
The first group is the disbeliever. They simply refuse to believe in any
phenomenon that cannot be explained by Newtonian physics. No amount of
scientific evidence will convince them otherwise.
The second is the skeptic. This is someone who does not belief in ESP because it
goes against his knowledge of science. However, the skeptic is open-minded and
when given strong scientific evidence they would be willing to admit that ESP
does exist. A skeptic would cast aside testimonial evidence but will give strong
consideration to the results of scientific research.
Third - the cautious believer. This person trusts that ESP exists but will not
believe every claim they read about. They demand scientific proof or testimonial
evidence. A cautious believer would find this series of lessons interesting because
it is backed up with scientific evidence and references to respected outside
sources.
The fourth group, the true believer strongly believes in ESP and is likely to also
believe anything they read or hear. If you are one - we encourage you to exercise
caution. Not everyone who claims to have ESP has it to an extent strong enough
to charge you money for. Phone psychics are almost all phonies. And very few
street psychics are actually worth paying for.
When it comes to a little understood phenomena, such as ESP, it is better to be a

cautious believer or a skeptic rather than a true believer.
Do We Know How it Works?
A number of theories have been but put forth on how ESP works but these are
still nothing more than theories.
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Today, it is generally accepted that ESP does exist and everyone has it but
science has yet to identify how or why it works.
However, we do not need to know how it works to use it - we only need to know
that it does work.
Think of the sun. For thousands of years we have used the energy of the sun for
light and heat. Yet, nobody knew what the sun really was. It was only in the last
100 years that humankind was able to understand that the sun is large star made
up of hydrogen and helium atoms going through a thermo-nuclear reaction.
It's the same with ESP - we do not yet know how it works or why. But we do
know that it is real.
And as any Silva UltraMind grad will tell you - once you learn to use it - you can
create many positive and beneficial effects in your life.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very

large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural…
We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.
~ Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut,
Founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences
The Implications
The growing body of evidence for ESP and other unusual phenomenon is being
noticed by businesses and governments. Here is a list of some recent
developments:
SONY Corp has been conducting research into alternative medicine, spoon
bending, telepathy and other forms of ESP.
Dr John Mihalasky, author of the book Executive ESP, has shown that success
rates for executives were proportional to their ESP ability lending credence to the
idea that intuition is a large factor in business success.
In November 1995 the CIA confirmed that for the previous 20 years it has been
using psychics for spy operations.
In November 1998 the US Patent Office issues the first patent for a psi- effect.
In July 1993 Mutual of Omaha insurance company, the nation’s largest provider
of health insurance for individuals announces that it would start paying insurance
benefits for meditation exercises designed to reverse heart disease.
In 1997 the Federal Government’s National Institute for Health formally endorses
acupuncture.
In April 2004 researchers in Denver University found that patients who underwent
a placebo surgery for Parkinson's Disease reported a better quality of life twelve
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months later. One woman even reported a resumption of full physical activity,
having been inactive for many years before surgery. The power of the placebo
effect has been seen before in Parkinson’s disease – but never to this extent.
Clearly the mind-body connection is very strong in this condition and it’s to be
hoped that ways can be found to exploit this to benefit the patient.

ESP in The Silva Seminar
One of the highlights in the Silva UltraMind seminar are the last two hours of
training, where the students get to demonstrate ESP on each other.
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You will be paired up with other students and given names and locations of
random people unknown to you. You then go to your meditative level of mind and
you receive information on them and their state of health through ESP.
The vast majority of participants end up with amazed looks on their faces as they
find themselves correctly "guessing" information on people and objects unknown
to them.
Here is the transcript from one of the session. Two students were paired up.
Student A helps guide Student B into a meditative level of mind. Student A then
tells student B to attempt to "view" the health condition of a subject known to A,
but unknown to B. B is only provided with the name, age and location of the
subject.
This is what B reported:
"I see a lady, nothing unusual about her. But her blood looks blue. There's bluish
blood flowing around her body. Strange. I'm now looking at her head. I see a
man standing in her head. He looks sad. There are three elephants surrounding
him. They are colorful. They are rotating around his head."
The lady in question suffered from a smoking-related disease that prevented her
blood from absorbing oxygen. She was also going through a sad time because her
husband had been stationed in India for the past three months on a business trip.
The blue blood was the subconscious mind's way of representing de-oxygenated
blood. (look at any biology text book drawing of the blood system and you will
find that de-oxygenated blood is represented with the color blue). The sad man
surrounded by elephants symbolized the husband in India.
Many such experiences occur during the seminar. These experiences invariably
lead the participant into a whole new perspective of life and what they are truly
capable of.
Some participants use this ability with healing. Others use it to help them develop
empathy and understand a loved one's feelings.
Most use it in more subtle ways such as making business decisions, deciding what
stock to invest in, buying a home, applying for college or guiding them into
making the right decisions in their life.
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Jose Silva's training is so powerful that most seminar participants experience ESP
by the second day of the seminar. In fact, the guarantee it. Sign up for a seminar
today or get on our reminder list to receive an email if a seminar comes to your
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Enhancing Your ESP
ESP is a natural ability that is heightened when you are in a state of meditation.
One simple technique to use your ESP is to go to your alpha level and ask
yourself a question.
Let images form on the mental screen (explained in Lesson 3). Do not analyze
what you see. Simply describe what you see mentally to yourself. Focus on
describing rather than analyzing. As soon as you start analyzing what you see
you allow your left brain to hijack the process.
We want to stress that it takes a lot of practice to develop your ESP. In our
seminars participants experience ESP after 2 days - but this is after 18 hours of
intensive training and guidance from a trained lecturer.
If you are unable to get results with the technique described above, don't worry.
You can still develop your ability by attending a seminar.
Another technique is called "dream-logging"
Louisa Rhine, the wife of Dr. J. B. Rhine conducted an ESP experiment of her own
while her husband was testing ESP ability empirically in a lab. Louisa asked
people to write to her about their first-hand experiences with ESP. She received
almost 14,000 letters. She found that 60% of the people who wrote to her
claimed that their ESP experience came to them while dreaming.
You might be experiencing ESP dreams too. But you usually forget your dreams.
"Dream-logging" is simple. Simply keep a pad and pencil by your beside and write
down your dreams in the morning when you wake up or in the middle of the night
if you suddenly awaken during a dream.
With practice anyone can develop and enhance their ESP. The ability, like sports
or musical talent is something that anyone can train themselves to be good at.
Sources:
1. Dr. J. B. Rhine, "Scientific Evidence Man has a Soul", American Weekly Magazine,
August 25, 1946.
2. Robert G. Jahn, Brenda J. Dunne and Roger D. Nelson, "Engineering Anomalies

Research," (Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 1, 1987): pp. 21-50.
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3. Dean Radin, Ph.D. , "The Conscious Universe", (New York: Harper Edge, 1997).
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Lesson 8
The Power of Goal Setting and Life Planning
Learn the #1 Habit of Peak Performers
The power of goal setting is undisputed - it is one of the most common

characteristics of successful individuals. Read the biographies of some of history's
most successful men and you will find that they had concrete dreams, visions or
goals of what they wished to achieve.
Yet studies have shown that only a mere 3% of the general population ever
practice goal setting properly.
In this lesson we are going to teach you how to adopt the habit of goal setting
and align this concept with some of the other techniques you have learned from
this program.
We will also share with you one of the most effective goal setting techniques you
can apply.
Desire - Belief - Expectancy
Jose Silva teaches that when you set a goal you need to adopt three qualities to
help manifest the end result.
First, you must have a burning desire to achieve the goal.
Second, you must have a strong belief that the goal is possible and within reach.
Third, you must be in the state of expectancy - you must be expecting to see
results.

Although Silva’s methods may sound purely philosophical, plenty of evidence
exists in the scientific community to support this theory.
The placebo effect is probably the most well known example. Doctors have found
that patients can often cure themselves of illnesses when prescribed sugar pills
and made to believe that these sugar pills are powerful drugs. The placebo effect
has also extended to cancer research, and doctors are experimenting with getting
patients to cure themselves of cancer naturally by visualizing themselves healthy
and cured.

Can the same psychological factors that cause the placebo effect be applied to
goal setting and thus help make a person or business more successful? We
believe it can. Perhaps nothing lends credence to the idea of desire, belief and
expectancy more than the following story.
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The Story of Sam
Sam was a poor kid who grew up in the heartland of America during the time of
the Great Depression. Times were tough and the kid worked hard to help his
parents make ends meet. He would get up early in the morning to milk the cows
and sell the milk to his 10 - 12 customers for 10 cents a gallon - a lot of money in
those days. He also went door to door selling magazine subscriptions when he
was barely eight years old.
Sam had one good thing going for him - a sharp streak of ambition. His mother
always told him that he should try to be the best he could at whatever he did. So
Sam always pursued everything that interested him with true passion.
Even as a kid growing up in Missouri, Sam was big on setting bold goals. He was
so ambitious that when he become a Boy Scout he took a bet with all the other
scouts in his unit that he would be the first amongst them to reach the rank of
Eagle Scout. Getting an Eagle Scout badge was no easy task and required a
young scout to show extreme bravery. Most Eagle Scouts were years older than
Sam.
Sam won the bet when as a 14-year-old, he saved a man from drowning in a
river. Little Sam went on to become the youngest Eagle Scout in the state of
Missouri at that time.
In high school Sam was elected President of the Student Body and was active in a
lot of other clubs too. Despite being only 5’9, Sam joined the basketball team and
was delighted when it won the State Championship. Sam also became a
quarterback on the football team – which went undefeated too.
Sam's ambition and positive mental attitude stayed with him as he graduated
from high school. By the time Sam got into college he was even entertaining
thoughts of someday becoming President of the United States. Thinking big just
came naturally to him.
Closer at hand, he decided he should try to be President of the University student

body first. So he ran for every office that came along and by the time he
graduated college he had been elected president of the senior men’s honor
society, an officer in his fraternity, president of his senior class and president of
the Bible class. He was also captain and president of Scabbard and Blade, the
elite military organization of ROTC.
While doing all this he also ran his own newspaper business and was making
$4,000 to $6,000 a year – which was at the end of the Depression Era fairly
serious money. "[Sam] was a little scatterbrained at times," said the circulation
manager of one of the newspapers Sam delivered while in College, "he would
have so many things going on, he'd almost forget one. But boy, when he focused
on something, that was it."
Sam graduated from college with a business degree and took a job at a J. C.
Penney store as a management trainee for $75 a month.
But Sam wasn't satisfied being a management trainee and soon started looking
for other opportunities. At the age of 27, with a loan from his father-in-law he
bought a little discount store in Newport, Arkansas.
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Despite initial poor sales and heavy competition from larger stores across the
street, Sam set a goal “I wanted my little Newport variety store to be the best,
most profitable variety store in Arkansas within 5 years”.
Sam worked hard for five years and hit his goal. He soon had the largest variety
store in Arkansas. But he didn't have much time to enjoy his success.
Soon his world came crashing down.
Sam's lease expired and the owner of his building refused to renew the lease. He
knew Sam had nowhere else to go and decided he wanted to take over the store
to pass on to his son.
"I felt sick to the stomach," said Sam, "I could not believe this was happening to
me. It really was like a nightmare."
But Sam wasn't the type of man to resign so easily.
He and his wife moved to a different town. There, in Bentonville, Arkansas, he

opened a new store. He remembered overhearing some people comment on his
new venture, "Well we'll give this guy sixty days, maybe ninety. He won't last
that long."
Well, Sam lasted more than 90 days. And his new store became a success. Soon
he began expanding his business and opening other stores throughout the state.
In 1962 at the age of 44 he opened his most ambitious store yet. He called it
Wal-Mart.
The rest is history.
In 1985 Forbes magazine called Sam Walton the richest man in America. The kid
who had to walk door-to-door selling milk and newspapers had founded what
today is the largest company in the world. Wal-Mart made millionaires out of
thousands of stockholders, provided jobs for millions of Americans and helped
increase the quality of life in many developing countries by reducing the cost of
goods.
In 1992, Sam Walton received the Presidential Medal of Honor – the highest
civilian award that can be bestowed on an American citizen.

From childhood till the time he died in 1992, Sam Walton had been successful in
everything he undertook. It’s hard to place a finger on what qualities make
people like Sam Walton successful in so many different endeavors. But in his
autobiography he talks about why he believes he was so lucky.
"I don't know what causes a person to be ambitious," Sam later said, "but it is a
fact that I have been over blessed with drive and ambition from the time I hit the
ground."
He added, "I expect to win. I go into tough challenges always planning to come
out victorious. It never occurred to me that I might lose, it was almost as if I had
a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling
prophecy."
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There are several lessons to be learned from this story.
1. Define Clear, Concrete Goals of What You Want to Accomplish.
Sam motivated himself by knowing what he wanted and setting a concrete goal
within a time-frame. When he opened his first store, he decided that he wanted
his store to be "the best, most profitable variety store in Arkansas within 5
years."
2. Think Big.
We create our own limitations. Most of us are guilty of aiming too low rather than
aiming too high. Sam Walton dreamt big - even as a kid. With each
accomplishment his confidence grew, and his goals became bigger and bigger. He
never set limits on himself.
When you're setting a goal, keep this in mind:
A good goal should scare you a little - and excite you a lot.
Think of your current goals and test them against this rule. If your goals do not
both scare and excite you - try targeting something a little bigger.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that
you can do something, you can do it – as long as you really believe it
100 percent.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, world renown actor,
sportsman and Governor of California
4. Don't Let Defeat Get You Down.
Sam liked to smile when he thinks of one of his early bosses at J.C. Penney who
had told him "I'd fire you if you weren't such a good salesman; maybe you're just
not cut out for retail."
He did not let other people's negative ideas influence him. When he lost his first
store he overcame his depression, then packed is bags, moved to a new town and
started again.
Perhaps if Sam had not lost his first store and been forced to start new in
Bentonville Wal-Mart would never had been founded. Defeat, when viewed from a
larger perspective, is often simply a mechanism of setting us on the right path or
teaching us a valuable lesson.
3. Desire - Belief - Expectancy
Your goals must meet the criteria of Desire, Belief and Expectancy.
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The goal must be something you strongly desire. The greater your desire the
stronger your will to pursue the goal. Napoleon Hill said "If your desires are
strong enough you will appear to possess super-human powers to achieve."
Next, the goal must be something you believe is in the realm of the possible. This
depends on your belief system. As you accomplish more in life your self-belief
grows. This increases your confidence and fuels you to accomplish even bigger
things.
Finally, you must expect the end result to occur.
Sam Walton said "I expect to win. I go into tough challenges always planning to
come out victorious. It never occurred to me that I might lose, it was almost as if
I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling
prophecy."
Expectancy is harder to create. But the tool of creative visualization helps

tremendously. Your subconscious mind cannot distinguish between a real
experience and an imagined experience. By frequently visualizing the end result
you desire you cause your subconscious to accept it to be real. This causes the
mind to draw that situation into your life. Perhaps, no one has summarized this
point more clearly than Gandhi when he said:
"The man I want to become, if I believe myself to be, I will become"
The Life Planning Process
Now that you understand the principles behind goal setting, it's time to put
together everything you've learned so far.
We're going to show you a simple yet powerful technique you can use to create a
life plan around your goals.

Step 1 - Identify What's Important to You
Think of the various aspects of your life. Health, Family, Friends, Career,
Spirituality, Finances, Charity, Education...etc.
Identify which of these focus areas are the most important to you. Perhaps your
main concerns are Family, Spirituality and Career. Come up with a list and rank
each area in order of importance.
Step 2 - Set Long Term Goals in Each Area.
Now come up with a vision of where you'd like to be five to ten years from now in
each of these areas. Maybe your career vision is to be running your own
business. Your family vision may be to take your spouse and children on a trip to
Australia. Your financial vision may be to have $250,000 in the bank.
Think of what you want. Remember the rule - a good goal should scare you a
little - and excite you a lot.
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By thinking of where you want to be five or ten years down the road, you have
created a long term vision.
Step 3 - Decide What You Need to Do This Year to Achieve Your Long
Term Vision.
So you want to have $250,000 in savings in the bank by 2009. What do you need
to do this year to hit this goal? Perhaps you would need to take a course on
investing, get a better paying job, or start looking for new business opportunities.
Do this with each long-term goal. This exercise helps you focus on both long and
short-term planning.
Many people tend to plan for only the short-term and lose sight of their long-term
vision.
Others only set long-terms goals but then forget what they need to do right now
to achieve these long-terms goals.
To be effective at goal setting you need to have a long-term vision and short-
term plans to get to this vision.
Step 4 - Put it All Down on Paper
We have provided a simple method called the Life Planning Chart to help you. You
can see a copy of such a chart below.
The first horizontal bar represents time. The first vertical bar represents each
focus area - in the chart below the focus areas are Family, Health, Career,
Artistic, and Financial.
Now divide the sheet in half. Use the first half to write down your short term
goals - goals to accomplish this year. Notice that each goal corresponds to a time
frame.
The second half is used to list your longer terms goals - what you wish to
accomplish next year and then each subsequent year for the next five years.

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If you have trouble seeing the image above you can open a larger version by
clicking here.
You start by first looking at your long-terms goals. Write down your long term
vision for each focus area in the appropriate row and column.
Next ask yourself the question What do I need to do this year to make sure I'm
on track for my long term vision? Write down your short-term goals in the
appropriate row and column.
This document should be flexible. Feel free to add new goals. You can also
remove older goals if your plans change.
Note: You can download a blank chart for you to print and use here.
Step 5 - Begin the Process of Creative Visualization.
You should place Life Planning Chart in a location where you're likely to view it
daily. It could be in an office drawer you open daily, as a file on your computer
desktop or in a frame on your wall.
When you meditate daily using the Silva System, spend a few minutes visualizing
yourself achieving each goal. You could also create an affirmation for each focus
area. (Refer to Lesson 4 of this Program).
Step 6 - Begin taking Action towards Your Goals.
You now have your long-term vision. You have the steps you need to do this year
to achieve that vision. Now put your plan in action.
Take a step, even the smallest step towards that goal. When you take your first
step you set the wheels in motion for your mind to manifest your dreams into
reality.
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Make it a point to start your life planning process as soon as you can and to
practice goal setting and creative visualization on a daily basis.
It's never too late to begin creating the life of your dreams.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make
history. Give me a man without a goal and I'll give you a stock clerk.
~ J.C. Penney, Founder of the J.C. Penney stores.
Sources:
1. Sam Walton and John Huey , "Made in America: My Story," (New York: Doubleday, 1992),
pp. 3-46.
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Lesson 9
Living Your Life Purpose
The Power of Intuition
Welcome to the last chapter of The Unlimited You Program. In this lesson we will
cover one of Jose Silva's most important ideas. The idea that we are all here to
fulfill a certain higher goal - our purpose in life.
Before we proceed with this lesson let us take a quick look at what we have
covered so far. In the previous lessons you learned the following:
How to reach a state of deep meditation: the Alpha Level (Lesson 2).
How to Gain Inspiration while at the alpha level (Lesson 3).
How to use Creative Visualization to shape your world (Lesson 4).
How to trigger Healing while at the alpha level (Lesson 5).
How to develop your Intuition (Lesson 7).
How to set Goals and create a life plan (Lesson 8).
If you missed any of the chapters above you may want to read them again.
We now come to one of the central principles on which Jose Silva built his system
- the importance of using your intuition to help you make correct decisions in life
and fulfill your life purpose.
Silva said, "The reason we were given psychic ability is so we can use it to get
information from higher intelligence to find out what we are supposed to do, and
how to do it."
Silva was not the first person to suggest this.
The author Napoleon Hill, who conducted more than 20 years of research on the
wealthiest and most successful people in the world, wrote the following insight in
his book You Can Work Your Own Miracles (Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1971):
I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who

collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and
discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown
sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.
Napoleon Hill explained that he believes that successful people including pioneers
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like Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison, are able to tap into a higher power to
source ideas and inspiration. This, he felt, was one of the main keys to success.
Now this idea has also been tested scientifically. Professor John Mihalasky,
Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of
Technology performed studies of ESP ability among company CEOs. He observed
that the CEOs who performed the best in tests of intuition also tended to be the
ones with the best success rates at running their business (measured in terms of
5 year profit growth).
ESP is a powerful way for us to connect with higher intelligence to help us source
ideas, make better decisions, and find our path in life.
Napoleon Hill's discovery has now come full circle. Hill, who lived 50 years before
Jose Silva, could not determine how to train people to gain this ability.
Jose Silva changed that when he pioneered the Silva Mind Training Method and
made Napoleon Hill's observations a reality for the average person.
Shakti Gawain, author of numerous books, including Creative Visualization
(Bantam Books, 1983) and Living in the Light (Bantam Books, 1993), wrote of
Jose Silva: "One of the earliest workshops I took was the Silva Mind Control
course...The most important technique I learned in that course was the basic
technique of creative visualization...Our rational mind is like a computer...The
intuitive mind, on the other hand, seems to give access to an infinite supply of
information. It appears to be able to tap into a deep storehouse of knowledge and
wisdom..."
Today, anyone can learn to tap into this source of knowledge and wisdom to get
intuitive hunches, creative ideas and divine inspiration. If Napoleon Hill and Jose
Silva are correct, then it may well be the most powerful and useful gift you
possess.
Albert Einstein may have summed it up perfectly when he declared:
The only really valuable thing is intuition.

Your Purpose In Life
Many self-improvement systems tell you that you can achieve anything you
desire through the use of your mind. But if this were true - wouldn't we all be
driving luxury cars and dating movie stars.
Obviously, this is not completely true.
Silva's theory is this: You are entitled to have every success, happiness and
fulfillment you can dream off. We are all sent here with a job to do and the
resources to fulfill that task. So why then do so many people not receive the
things in life that they are naturally entitled to and deserve?
The answer is a simple one.
Many people try to achieve what they think they should do, instead of what they
were sent here to do. Many goal-setting techniques claim to teach you to
manifest anything you desire - but all these systems have a common flaw:
If you're aiming for a goal or outcome that is not part of the greater plan for you
then you may fail.
You can achieve anything you desire if what you desire is part of your Soul's plan
for you. Everyone is put on this planet for a reason. Find out what that reason is -
and doorways will open for you.
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Jose Silva believed that we are all put here to fulfill some greater purpose. This
purpose usually involves the betterment of humanity to some degree. He believed
that when you start working towards this purpose, your life moves smoothly and
elegantly and you find yourself easily fulfilling your dreams.
Life purpose should not be confused with "lack of free will". We do have free will -
we can choose to take our life down any path. We can choose to ignore this
purpose completely too.
Within a lifetime, there are certain milestones you are meant to reach. These
could be: meeting someone, maybe a soul-mate; starting a business or a
foundation; raising some great kids; or even producing a book or a work of art.
Silva believed that we should all try to fulfill this purpose. Sometimes we do
things that take us away from this purpose - without realizing it, we miss out on
beautiful opportunities. We may get trapped in roadblocks - a lousy job, a
troubled relationship, or a poor financial condition.
But when you find your life mission, then no matter how bad things look now, you
will be on the path to greatness.
Silva UltraMind teaches you to tap into your intuition to understand what your
purpose in life is. You then learn how to use your mind to create all manner of
coincidences to propel you towards this goal or purpose.
Silva developed a technique called the mental video technique to help people get
in tune with their higher self and get the guidance they seek. The technique is
performed at night before going to bed and sets your mind working for you while
you are in the delta level of mind, the unconscious sleep stage. The answers
come to you within the next few days - sometimes as a stroke of inspiration,
sometimes as something you see or overhear, or through a conversation or
chance encounter with someone else. Silva felt that this was the most powerful
and useful technique he developed. You can learn this technique in the Silva
UltraMind seminar.

Principles to Keep in Mind When Using the Silva System
When using Silva to program for a solution to a problem or to manifest a reality

you desire, you should always keep the following principles in mind.
1. Build Up Your Reservoir of Faith
Remember the concept of Desire, Belief and Expectancy that you learned in
Lesson 8?
You need to believe that whatever you are programming for is in the realm of the
possible. You must also expect it to occur. This can be hard if you're new to Silva
or related methods. You may want to start on smaller, believable goals first. Each
time you achieve one of these smaller goals you will find your self-confidence and
belief system improving. This will give you more faith in your ability to create
your ideal future. As your reservoir of faith fills up, you have greater ability to do
even bolder and larger things.
Remember the stories we provided in Lesson 1 about Scott Adams and Lesson 8
about Sam Walton. Both of them started with smaller goals and achieved these
first before tackling truly amazing things. Keep this idea in mind if you are just
starting out.

2. Develop a Feeling of Prosperity
It's very important to cultivate a feeling of prosperity throughout the entire
creative manifesting process. This means understanding that the universe is
abundant and almost everything you want or need is there for the asking. There
is no lack of abundance. A very common reason for failure is scarcity
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programming - you were trained early in life to believe that there are barriers in
your way. As long as you continue to believe that you have a cultural
disadvantage, or that money is the root of evil, or that you were born a sinner
- you will be hijacking your own creative process. Take an honest look at yourself
and see if you are holding yourself back by not believing sufficiently in the
possibility of prosperity.
Understand that you already have more prosperity than billions of people
elsewhere in the world. The average North American today lives better than the
princes of medieval Europe.
If you could go back in time and approach a medieval prince and tell him how you
live today, with access to all the information in the world (the Internet), magic
story boxes (TVs), self-propelled carriages (cars), the ability to cross the
continent in 5 hours (airplanes), and all the food you desire (supermarkets) - you
can bet that prince is going to want to trade places with you.
You see - you aren't average or even poor - in the annals of history you are
probably one of the richest people who ever lived. But if you're like most other
people, you still compare yourself to the Bill Gates' and the movie stars of the
world who just happen to be even richer.
Cultivate the feeling of being prosperous and thanking the universe for what you
have. You will find that this mental attitude will cause even more luck and
coincidences to arise in your life and lead you to even greater prosperity.

3. Some Things are Meant to go "Wrong".
Sometimes we program for a certain situation or goal but for some reason we do
not seem to move any closer towards it. Jose Silva suggested that when this
happens it sometimes means that the goal is not right for us - it may be
something that would actually take us away from our life purpose.
Sometimes what appears to be a negative situation may actually be good luck in
disguise. Take the example of Millard Fuller.
By the age of thirty Millard had made his first million and was aiming for $10
million more. He owned everything he could hope for - 2,000 acres of land, speed
boats, luxury cars. But as his business empire grew his marriage was crumbling.
One day he received a letter from his wife Linda declaring that she had fallen out
of love with him and was seeking a divorce. The week that followed was one of
the most agonizing weeks of his life. He called Linda and begged for a second
chance. Reluctantly, with tears in her eyes, she agreed. Together they decided to
get rid of everything they owned and start anew. They sold everything - the
business, the homes, the cars. But what next?
Somehow Millard and Linda found themselves in Georgia a few years later. While
doing volunteer work they were struck by the dilapidated shacks many
impoverished families had to live in. Millard and his co-workers started building
homes for these needy people. Moved by the powerful impact these homes had
on the people who moved into them, Millard decided to see if these simple
concepts could be applied around the world. He knew that 25% of the world's
population lacked decent housing.
Millard's goal was once to make $10 million - he now had a new goal - could he
build homes for 10 million people? Convinced that he had a concept that could
work worldwide he launched Habitat for Humanity International in 1976. Habitat
has already built more than 60,000 houses around the world for 300,000 people.
Habitat now coordinates 800 building projects in fifty-one foreign countries.
Millard and Linda now see themselves as two of the luckiest people alive. A single
event - the threat of divorce led them onto a completely different path, one that
has not just made them happier, but benefited thousands of people around the
world.
Sometimes, like Millard, people pursue a goal that they think is correct - but this
goal may be out of line from what their life purpose is. This is why in the Silva
UltraMind seminar we always encourage people to use their intuition to first
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determine if they are on the right path - and once they get an answer, only then
do they set their goals.

4. Always Ask The Greater Question.
A student in one of our classes once told the instructor, "I can't wait to go home
and start using these techniques to achieve my goal of mastering the use of a
computer for data entry."
The instructor asked, "Well, why do you want to master using a computer?" The
student said that learning this skill would allow her to get a promotion at work.
"Why do you want a promotion," asked the instructor.
"So I can get a raise" she replied.
Why do you want a raise", the instructor asked again.
"Because I need the money to buy a larger home".
"Why?"
"Because I want my mother and sister to move in with me".
"Why?"
"Because it has been our dream to own a big house together and live together as
a family."
"Good," said the instructor. "Now you have identified what you really want. It's a
large house with your family living with you. You don't really want to learn data-
entry. What you want is the house. So when you go back and practice
visualization - aim for the greater goal - the house. Let that goal manifest in any
way. Be open to different ways it could manifest - it may not come through you
learning data-entry. You might get another job, in a completely unexpected field.
Be open to all possibilities".
When you create goals keep this in principle in mind. First ask yourself why do
you really want what you want. Keep asking until you reduce the desire to its
elementary need.
Now focus on this desire or need in your mental programming. Be open to

coincidences. Don’t be locked into having the solution come from any one
direction.
The Final Words - Begin at Once!
We hope you have enjoyed this series of lessons and that this brief glimpse of
what Silva techniques can do for your life will motivate you to attend a seminar or
listen to the home study course.
We'd like to offer one final bit of advice.
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Once you decide on what you want to do, begin at once. Take a step, even the
smallest step towards that goal.
Begin today. Read Lesson 8 on goal-setting if you have not already done so and
start putting down your goals on paper.
Figure out what you need to do this month to make your dreams a reality and
then begin at once. As soon as you take that first baby step towards your goal
you start the wheels in motion to manifest your dreams into reality.
Goethe, the German poet and thinker with the highest IQ in history (psychologist
estimate his IQ to be 210), offers his sagely advice in the splendid poem below.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy,

the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative,

there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans:
That the moment one definitely commits oneself,

then providence moves, too.
All sorts of things occur to help one

that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,

raising in one’s favor all manner of
unforeseen incidents and meetings and
material assistance which no man
could have dreamed would come his way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it!

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~ Goethe, the great German thinker,

author and genius.
May the Rest of Your Life be the Best of Your Life
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Welcome to Lesson One - Silva UltraMind Online Course

Living Your Alpha Life

What's Your True Potential?

Welcome to the first chapter of our nine-part multimedia e-book on

Let's begin with a question.

Imagine how you would feel if you had it all...

 the business fulfillment,

Wouldn't that be wonderful?

 starting a profitable business

 spending a year abroad with the Peace Corp

 earning your first one million dollars

 recovering from a life-threatening illness

 How to reach deep levels of meditation with supreme ease.

The Multi-Purpose Mind

A well known figure once said:

These words were said not by a guru on a mountaintop, nor a self-improvement

Let's look at some examples of what happens when this "eternal reservoir of

Case 1# - Using the Mind in Sports

Group 2 – did 75% physical training, 25% mental training.

Group 3 – did 50% physical training, 50% mental training.

Group 4 – did 25% physical training, 75% mental training.

Dr. Klopfer was in for a big surprise.

Wright's story is tragic, but it contains a powerful message: When we are

Case 3# - Creating Positive Coincidences

"Within a few weeks, coincidences started to happen to me." wrote Scott.

"Reporters often ask me if I am surprised at the success of the Dilbert comic

Your Next Lesson - The Silva Centering Exercise

The next email in our series will be sent to you tomorrow.

The subject will be the The Silva Centering Exercise.

Get ready for an exciting experience.

PS - If You Can't Wait till Tomorrow...

Just Visit this Link to Download and Play

Sources for this lesson:

1. Charles A. Garfield, "PeakPerformance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest

2. Bruno Klopfer, "Psychological Variables in Human Cancer," Journal of Prospective Techniques

The Silva Centering Exercise

A guided meditation technique to help you achieve deep levels of

The Centering Exercise

Let's Get Started

To Start the Centering Exercise

Now the real fun begins.

You can use this level of mind to

 gain inspirational ideas and thoughts,

Gaining Inspiration From Within

Jose Silva used to demonstrate an experiment on creativity with kids in his

Napoleon Hill writes:

The great artists, writers, musicians and poets became great

Where Do Ideas Come From?

Where do creative ideas come from? The brain? The mind?

Intuition in the Business World

Does this concept have applications in the world of business?

Professor John Mihalasky, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering

Prof. Mihalasky's experiment results are summarized in the table below.

A research director at NDM (New Foundations in Medicine) took a Silva course

Here's how you can use this technique.

The Basic Technique

Just visit this link to join.

2. Douglas Dean, John Mihalasky, "Executive ESP," (Prentice Hall, 1974)

Is "Luck" Within Your Control?

It all starts with your imagination.

Imagination is the ability to create an idea, a vision or an image of something

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Let's take a look at some of these personal experiences. Millions of people